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The Greeley Company was delighted to share its insights about how to best prepare for and cope with changes...
Hospitals have faced a considerable number of challenges during the pandemic, from managing shrinking margins to adapting to “surge...
As healthcare becomes more and more integrated through consolidation, acquisitions, and mergers, one of the most difficult challenges for...
Click here to visit our COVID-19 Resource Center May 29, 2020 On May 27, 2020, The Joint Commission (TJC)...
Visit our COVID-19 Resource Center April 23, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many challenges for healthcare organizations across...
Visit our COVID-19 Resource Center April 16, 2020 We are experiencing significant changes in healthcare as a result of...
Click here to visit our COVID-19 Resource Center April 13, 2020 In the event of an incident causing a...
Click here to visit our COVID-19 Resource Center April 7, 2020 During national or local “disasters” hospitals may face...
Visit our COVID-19 Resource Center April 6, 2020 On March 18, 2020, The Joint Commission published in their Standards...
Click here to visit our COVID-19 Resource Center April 6, 2020 The following is a brief summary of the...
Click here to visit our COVID-19 Resource Center March 27, 2020 The following recommendations are culled from CDC and...
Click here to visit our COVID-19 Resource Center March 25, 2020 All healthcare personnel understand the risk of COVID-19...
Visit our COVID-19 Resource Center March 25, 2020 As healthcare organizations continue to evolve their workplace environment to accommodate...
Click here to visit our COVID-19 Resource Center March 24, 2020 As part of our COVID-19 blog series, on...
Visit our COVID-19 Resource Center March 24, 2020 Faced with a global pandemic, hospitals across the country have activated...
Click here to visit our COVID-19 Resource Center Amid ongoing concerns regarding the containment of the COVID-19 virus and...
The Boy Scout motto of “be prepared” resonates strongly for healthcare organizations at the time of a disaster. Hospitals...
CMS and The Joint Commission recently issued a string of notifications to the healthcare industry in response to the...
The following is an excerpt from the Q&A following our Insights webinar, “Meeting The Joint Commission’s New Perinatal Safety...
Avoiding patient harm has been healthcare’s goal from the days of Hippocrates. Yet achieving this goal remains elusive. Despite...
The Greeley Company was delighted to share its insights about how to best prepare for and deal with CMS...
This post is an insightful Q&A with Greeley’s Senior Advisory Consultant, Kim Wilson, MS, BSN, RN. Q: Do you...
In the last decade alone, Greeley has educated over 11,000 physicians and hospital leaders through our Physician and Hospital...
Do you need assistance in creating an effective credentialing policy for returning practitioners? Contact us: 888.749.3054 Is your facility...
What are the Odds of a Medicare Deficiency after a Joint Commission Survey? Your hospital has a 50-50 chance...
On May 23, 2019 The Greeley Company held a national online webcast covering the Physician Burnout Epidemic. (View this...
The Greeley Company held a national online seminar covering the top 20 Joint Commission and the top 22 CMS...
Question: Surveyors have cited us for standards, such as contracted services, and are inconsistent with content of this webinar.......
Question: Should screening for suicidality be documented for all patients or only if certain criteria are met?
Question: Can you go into more detail about what the regulations require for medication storage. In our facility, pharmacy...
Question: Does food storage include staff refrigerators or only refrigerators with patient items?
Question: You said that orders for non-violent restraints no longer need to be renewed every 24 hours?
Four steps healthcare organizations can take to meet the scoring revisions
If hospital survey results during the past year are any indication, 2019 should be a very busy and challenging...
Joint Commission representatives have begun emphasizing the need for an additional “NFPA Time Out” for some surgical cases.
Hospitals seem to have a season for everything. There are preparations and protocols and promotions for the onset of...
Among the topics slated for “enhanced” attention during Joint Commission surveys are high-level disinfection and sterilization, which continue to...
If you are looking to make a change at your hospital to define or revise the way you do...
There are two types of recommendations that can come out of a mock survey: good recommendations and unhelpful recommendations.
If your hospital is accredited by The Joint Commission (TJC), your CEO recently received a letter.
No more Mr. Niceguy. It started as “better guidance” for prescribers as concerns mounted that the over-prescription of opioid...
As more states legalize marijuana, more physicians have begun recommending cannabis to their patients for the management of pain,...
If you are still using “laundry list” privileging as opposed to core privileging, you are likely struggling to perform...
Hospitals and medical staffs all too often experience predictable areas ....
If you are still using “laundry list” privileging as opposed to core privileging, you are likely struggling to perform...
Is your organization struggling with physician engagement — getting physicians on the organized medical staff on board with scheduling...
Every organization has struggled at one point or another to fill this key and complex role. It takes time...
In recent weeks (months?!), there’s been a lot of discussion relative to the identification and mitigation of risks in...
Have you made any New Year’s Resolutions for your medical staff services team for 2018? Here are some...
Co-Author: Sally Pelletier, CPMSM, CPCS Are your patients and practitioners protected in the ambulatory environment?
The most recent data shows unemployment among salaried employees at hospitals is flat-lining at 1.4 percent and turnover in...
Can you connect these dots to suboptimal financial performance in your organization?
Cultural Challenges Integrating Physicians with Hospitals and Systems More than half of physicians practicing in the United States
Cultural Challenges Integrating Physicians with Hospitals and Systems More than half of physicians practicing in the United States
ATTENTION In-House Counsel and MSPs: Do these negligent credentialing scenarios sound familiar?
Age catches up with all of us, but in medicine, it’s catching up with some more than others.
According to a 2016 survey, as many as 58 percent of physicians in the United States are employed by...
By now everyone should be well aware that two categories of standards rise to the top in the volume...
You may have heard in passing that the FDA banned the use of powdered gloves in January 2017 due...
Summary: The Greeley Company’s consulting model is intended to help hospitals and their affiliated Medical Staffs build and strengthen...
How to clarify Don’t get hung up on the clarification format. Sometimes explanations don’t fit well into the Joint...
Rumor has it that the Joint Commission removed the option to clarify survey findings. This rumor is not true....
The Joint Commission has proposed some changes to it’s national patient safety goal for suicide prevention.
As you might know, The Greeley Company assists organizations of all sizes and types with their important external peer...
Over time, The Joint Commission (TJC) has intermittently circled back to the processes organizations use to manage Life Safety...
A key way to propel our hospital data to the next level of usefulness is to consider where our...
I always look forward to the mail on Friday because it usually includes the latest issue of People Magazine....
The song remains the same – only the tempo has changed! As we head toward the promise of a...
The Greeley Company is well known for our national physician and hospital leadership seminars.
January is a time when many of us reflect on the happenings of the previous year and will set...
As hospitals form more expansive networks, small inefficiencies in individual credentialing processes compound and become increasingly disruptive at the...
External Peer Review (EPR) typically is thought of as the review of a medical record for individual cases in...
Medical staff services departments might need interim staffing assistance at any point for a variety of reasons.
Think you have your physician peer review covered? Before you answer “yes,” consider: Would you rate your peer review...
Over 500 healthcare executives and industry leaders from across the country will gather November 7-9 at the Swissotel
As The Greeley Company continues our work with hospital and system administrators and physician leaders in this unprecedented time...
Dan Nielsen, former healthcare executive turned speaker and author, conducted several enlightening interviews at the 2016 Becker’s Hospital Review...
Another NAMSS conference has come and gone. This is an event that many of us look forward to every...
The Greeley Company is looking forward to participating in the National Association Medical Staff Services (NAMSS) 40th Educational Conference...
Administrators at a 300-bed tertiary healthcare facility brought in consultants from The Greeley Company to help guide them through...
The Greeley Company is pleased to release the fourth and final part of our new guidebook, The Greeley Guide...
in May and June, The Greeley Company released the first two parts of our four-part new guidebook,
For those of you who closely follow the ebb and flow of the physical environment regulatory compliance season, 2016...
Last month, The Greeley Company released the first of our four-part new guidebook, The Greeley Guide to External Peer...
The increasing spotlight on quality and safety issues in healthcare has made peer review more important than ever.
The number of employed practitioners at your hospital is increasing. Provider enrollment with the managed care payers is time-consuming...
If you were among the healthcare leaders who participated in the recent Becker’s Hospital Review Annual Meeting in Chicago
Today, Tuesday May 3, 2016, CMS announced the full adoption of the provisions of the 2012 edition of NFPA...
Over 1,500 healthcare executives and industry leaders from across the country will gather later this week, April 27-30, at...
The considerable length of time it can take to credential and enroll practitioners in health care networks
“Stop the line” is a very familiar term to me, through my years of experience in the hospital setting....
My colleagues from The Greeley Company and I hope that you’re enjoying this holiday season and feeling energized for...
A little over a week ago, I had the “NAMSS experience.” This year’s conference theme was about embracing change.
A regional hospital with 350+ beds and a physician group practice of approximately 20 physicians plus allied health practitioners...
How to Manage Temporary Privileges to Mitigate Risk and Protect Patients Thursday
The Chief Executive Officer/General Counsel and Credentials Chair of a 25-bed, physician-owned surgical hospital engaged The Greeley Company about...
Recent public statements by CMS representatives have raised questions about the mechanism a hospital should use to authorize/approve temporary...
As my Greeley colleagues and I continue our work with hospital administrators and physician leaders nationwide in this unprecedented...
During a July 2014 Joint Commission survey, one of CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Medical Center’s specialty hospitals experienced some specific...
Historically, the medical staff services department has operated behind the scenes in healthcare organizations,
t should come as no surprise that nine out of the 10 most frequently cited standards during 2014 TJC...
After performing some random credentialing file reviews, a multi-entity health system of 200+ beds that is part of a...
The Greeley Company is looking forward to participating this week in the Becker’s Hospital Review 6th Annual Meeting, May...
We have all had beliefs we held to be true, only to find out at some point in the...
The Greeley Company’s Chief Credentialing Officer, Sally Pelletier, was recently interviewed for the following story on physician imposters in...
The imperative in healthcare today is to rapidly and significantly improve quality and reduce costs.
A contractor is building several new homes in my community. I have been watching the excavation and grading of...
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