An effective prescreen process helps to ensure that nonviable candidates for employment never make it to first base. It also helps to minimize the risk of throwing open the door to due process if an application to the medical staff is offered and then denied after you have formally started to process it. Finally, while an executive champion might be required to jump start and work through the initial organizational roadblocks, once formulated, the prescreen becomes standard operating procedure among frontline staff. This free resource is a checklist for a prescreen process. 

 Published 6/14/17

Why should a medical staff establish methods for addressing conflicts of interest? It’s not as if turf wars can break out among specialists within the same medical staff. And no financial conflicts ever occur between a hospital and the physicians who practice there. And surely no personal disagreements would exist between two medical staff members.

Oh no! How has any medical staff ever functioned without a conflict of interest process? 

 Published 6/14/17

Many medical staffs fail to screen for conflicts of interest in their decision-making processes, despite the need to ensure clinical decisions are made for the betterment of patient care, rather than for fame, glory, or the bottom line. Joint Commission standard LD.04.02.01 states that conflicts of interest involving leaders must be disclosed according to the hospital’s defined method.

 Published 6/12/17

For healthcare organizations, the provision of contract services continues to evolve. Traditionally, it was common to find hospitals contracting for housekeeping and food services. Today, given the increasing pressure on hospitals for financial viability and the advent of telehealth, it is not uncommon to find hospitals contracting for a multitude of clinical services. A survey on healthcare outsourcing conducted by Waller, a Nashville-based law firm, noted the top five outsourced patient care services in 2012 were those related to anesthesia, ED, dialysis services, diagnostic imaging, and hospitalist care. In comparison, in 2006, the top five outsourced clinical services were dialysis services, sleep disorders, diagnostic imaging, laboratory services, and physical therapy.

Check out (and contribute to) the latest conversations:

• Telemedicine and face-to-face privileges
• Advanced practice professionals
• Privilege form
• Unified medical staffs: Facility privileges
• Drug screening for medical staff
• Spinal access surgeon
• Flu vaccinations: Are they mandatory at your institution?
• Psychiatric nurse practitioner

The medical staff services profession is on the move, according to more than 600 early responses to HCPro’s 2017 MSP Salary Survey, which closes later this month.

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