Despite hospitals’ best attempts, medical staff bylaws are rarely user-friendly documents. Hospitals nationwide spend significant sums of money, devote countless hours of physicians’ time, and employ numerous attorneys and consultants in an attempt to perfect, refine, and improve their bylaws. Still, bylaws often are overrun with complex terms, definitions, and jargon that have little to do with the provision of quality patient care. For many physicians and medical staff leaders, the mere word “bylaws” conjures images of bureaucracy.

Successful credentialing teams are taking specific steps to ensure their processes are efficient and effective – you should be too. In this whitepaper, discover eight proven ways you can speed up and improve your credentialing process. These best practices and key strategies will help to enhance your credentialing in a way that benefits your organization at every level, from recruiters and medical staff professionals, to patients and providers.

Read the inaugural issue of the expanded CRCJ and the final 12-page issue of the publication.

Read or print a copy of the full November issue of Medical Staff Briefing by downloading this PDF.

You now have until November 18 to enter our contests for outstanding MSPs and medical staff leaders.

National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week is November 6–12. How will you be celebrating? Send your ideas, tips, photos, and planning materials to Editor Delaney Rebernik at drebernik@hcpro.com, and you could see your contributions featured on the CRC site. Stay tuned for details on the special deals we’re launching that week to honor the hardworking professionals at the heart of patient safety and quality care.