If you are still using “laundry list” privileging as opposed to core privileging, you are likely struggling to perform meaningful OPPE and FPPE. If a laundry list for a typical specialist includes 60-80 privileges, how do you determine current competence for each? In order to prove current competence, you need data. And performance on only… [Read More]
7 Common Hospital Conflicts + 1 Proven Conflict Resolution Tool = WAY Less Conflict
Hospitals and medical staffs all too often experience predictable areas of strife for which external peer review can prove to be a useful conflict resolution tool. We’ll bet you have at least three of these going on right now. You are not alone. Trust Issues When competing physician groups in the same specialty must conduct peer review… [Read More]
Does Your Medical Staff Services Department “Flex Up” to Meet Demand?
A hospital “flexes” its staff up and down all the time to meet the clinical needs of the census. Do you make similar staffing adjustments at reappointment time, or when a large volume of newly employed practitioners is onboarded? Interim medical staff professionals (MSPs) — individuals and teams — can help you optimize workloads, reduce… [Read More]
What Medical Directors Need to Succeed: Is Empowerment Enough?
Is your organization struggling with physician engagement — getting physicians on the organized medical staff on board with scheduling imperatives, quality and cost initiatives, and management expectations? Maybe your organization has added a layer of medical directors who report to the administration and are meant to support physician leadership? While there are many ways medical… [Read More]
The Best of Both Worlds: Honor Your Organization by NOT Choosing an Internal Interim CMO
Every organization has struggled at one point or another to fill this key and complex role. It takes time to find a great Chief Medical Officer. So what happens in the meantime? An Interim CMO? Many organizations opt to appoint an internal interim, but it’s often a lose-lose scenario. [HINT: Yes, we have an alternative solution. … [Read More]
Seven “Doable” Med Staff Services Resolutions for 2018
Have you made any New Year’s Resolutions for your medical staff services team for 2018? Here are some resolutions Greeley helped clients make and achieve for 2017. Why not your team? Why not now? Medical Staff Services Resolutions for 2018 I will not react. I will aspire to be proactive, anticipating the needs of those around me and acknowledging… [Read More]
Vacancies in Quality Leadership Can Cause Domino Effects
The most recent data shows unemployment among salaried employees at hospitals is flat-lining at 1.4 percent and turnover in healthcare (measured in quits and separations not related to layoffs) is tracking 20 percent higher than last year. As a result we are seeing more vacancies in key quality and leadership positions. The challenges with this… [Read More]
Two Signs a Hospital’s Financial Health Isn’t What it Could Be
Can you connect these dots to suboptimal financial performance in your organization? Many hospitals, through merger/acquisition/integration, have a confusing governance structure where accountability and expectations are unclear. There are new and hold-over sets of overlapping bylaws and policies that are overly complex, duplicative, contradictory, or some combination thereof. And then there’s the org chart… This… [Read More]
10 “Aging Physicians” Issues Hospitals Are Facing
Age catches up with all of us, but in medicine, it’s catching up with some more than others. In 2015, the number of practicing physicians older than 55 (a.k.a. Aging Physicians) topped 30 percent. In some specialties, aging is even more prevalent. In 2013, more than half of neurologists, orthopedic surgeons, cardiologists, psychiatrists, oncologists, pulmonologists,… [Read More]
11 Ways Increasing Employed Physician Numbers Magnify Medical Staff “Issues”
According to a 2016 survey, as many as 58 percent of physicians in the United States are employed by a hospital or physician group. According to another national study, the three year period from July 2012 to July 2015 showed the number of hospital-employed physicians increased by almost 50 percent. And those numbers show no sign… [Read More]
