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Featured Content | The importance of creating user-friendly bylaws | 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. |
8 best practices for successful credentialing | 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. |
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CRC Announcements | Fill us in on your MSP Awareness Week festivities! | 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. |
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| Product Spotlight | The Guide to Medical Staff Bylaws Bylaws serve as the governing documents of the medical staff. Bylaws must meet the hospital’s accreditor’s standards, state and federal regulations, and the needs of the hospital’s medical staff. The Guide to Medical Staff Bylaws offers tips for writing bylaws and actual sample language that complies with Joint Commission, DNV, HFAP, and/or CMS standards. Mary J. Hoppa, MD, MBA, offers guidance on implementing accreditor’s standards and advice on getting physicians to buy into the importance of following medical staff bylaws. This guide goes beyond just providing sample language; it explains the importance of the bylaw and what it means for your organization to ensure compliance. | |
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