The Credentials Committee Manual
The Credentials Committee Manual

Author: Mark A. Smith

Publisher:

Published: 2016-05-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781683080756

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Best practices for compiling and using data in reappointment decisions, navigating credentialing considerations for nonphysician practitioners, preventing turf battles, and avoiding legal issues

The Credentialing and Privileging Toolbox
The Credentialing and Privileging Toolbox

Author: Merella Schandl

Publisher:

Published: 2017-03-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781683082033

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MSPs and medical staff leaders do enough vetting for practitioner applications without worrying about tracking down and validating resources that support structurally sound credentialing and privileging processes. Featuring an array of field-sourced, expert-endorsed forms that facilitate regulatory compliance, policy development, and routine credentialing communications, The Credentialing and Privileging Toolbox lightens the administrative load so MSPs and medical staff leaders have more time for duties that foster high-quality care and patient safety. Inspired by our popular OPPE and FPPE toolboxes, The Credentialing and Privileging Toolbox offers a bevy of sample forms, policies, letters, plans, reports, and related resources that healthcare organizations of various scope, size, and service focus are currently using to execute effective practitioner vetting processes. Included tools, which come from in-the-trenches MSPs and medical staff leaders, have been curated and appraised by expert author Merella Schandl. The resulting collection reflects industry best practices, the wide range of modern healthcare entities that credential and privilege practitioners, and the various aspects of a successful vetting approach. Tools are arranged by type and topic for easy navigation. Within each tool, Schandl highlights key components and provides targeted analysis on tailoring the sample to individual facility needs.

Making Healthcare Safe
Making Healthcare Safe

Author: Lucian L. Leape

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-05-28

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 3030711234

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This unique and engaging open access title provides a compelling and ground-breaking account of the patient safety movement in the United States, told from the perspective of one of its most prominent leaders, and arguably the movement’s founder, Lucian L. Leape, MD. Covering the growth of the field from the late 1980s to 2015, Dr. Leape details the developments, actors, organizations, research, and policy-making activities that marked the evolution and major advances of patient safety in this time span. In addition, and perhaps most importantly, this book not only comprehensively details how and why human and systems errors too often occur in the process of providing health care, it also promotes an in-depth understanding of the principles and practices of patient safety, including how they were influenced by today’s modern safety sciences and systems theory and design. Indeed, the book emphasizes how the growing awareness of systems-design thinking and the self-education and commitment to improving patient safety, by not only Dr. Leape but a wide range of other clinicians and health executives from both the private and public sectors, all converged to drive forward the patient safety movement in the US. Making Healthcare Safe is divided into four parts: I. In the Beginning describes the research and theory that defined patient safety and the early initiatives to enhance it. II. Institutional Responses tells the stories of the efforts of the major organizations that began to apply the new concepts and make patient safety a reality. Most of these stories have not been previously told, so this account becomes their histories as well. III. Getting to Work provides in-depth analyses of four key issues that cut across disciplinary lines impacting patient safety which required special attention. IV. Creating a Culture of Safety looks to the future, marshalling the best thinking about what it will take to achieve the safe care we all deserve. Captivatingly written with an “insider’s” tone and a major contribution to the clinical literature, this title will be of immense value to health care professionals, to students in a range of academic disciplines, to medical trainees, to health administrators, to policymakers and even to lay readers with an interest in patient safety and in the critical quest to create safe care.

The Medical-Legal Aspects of Acute Care Medicine
The Medical-Legal Aspects of Acute Care Medicine

Author: James E. Szalados

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-04-02

Total Pages: 694

ISBN-13: 3030685705

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The Medical-Legal Aspects of Acute Care Medicine: A Resource for Clinicians, Administrators, and Risk Managers is a comprehensive resource intended to provide a state-of-the-art overview of complex ethical, regulatory, and legal issues of importance to clinical healthcare professionals in the area of acute care medicine; including, for example, physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, and care managers. In addition, this book also covers key legal and regulatory issues relevant to non-clinicians, such as hospital and practice administrators; department heads, educators, and risk managers. This text reviews traditional and emerging areas of ethical and legal controversies in healthcare such as resuscitation; mass-casualty event response and triage; patient autonomy and shared decision-making; medical research and teaching; ethical and legal issues in the care of the mental health patient; and, medical record documentation and confidentiality. Furthermore, this volume includes chapters dedicated to critically important topics, such as team leadership, the team model of clinical care, drug and device regulation, professional negligence, clinical education, the law of corporations, tele-medicine and e-health, medical errors and the culture of safety, regulatory compliance, the regulation of clinical laboratories, the law of insurance, and a practical overview of claims management and billing. Authored by experts in the field, The Medical-Legal Aspects of Acute Care Medicine: A Resource for Clinicians, Administrators, and Risk Managers is a valuable resource for all clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals.

Verify and Comply
Verify and Comply

Author: Carol S. Cairns

Publisher:

Published: 2009-11

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9781601466778

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Verify and Comply: A Quick Reference Guide to Credentialing Standards, Fifth Edition Carol S. Cairns, CPMSM, CPCS The Joint Commission... NCQA... CMS... DNV... HFAP... Searchable and side-by-side! Verify and Comply, Fifth Edition, is the much anticipated next edition of one of HCPro's most popular credentialing resources. Many satisfied customers have used this resource to study for their NAMSS certification exams and to keep up to date with accreditors' credentialing standards. This newly expanded guide addresses Joint Commission, NCQA, and CMS standards in the book, as well as DNV and HFAP on the companion CD-ROM. That means five sets of accreditors' standards are side-by-side and searchable by topic on CD-ROM. Get the resource thousands of MSPs have come to rely on. It will help you: Easily access, navigate, and compare the requirements of all five organizations at a glance Eliminate wasted time searching through multiple resources to find what you need Stop struggling to interpret the standards on your own Understand the differences between the stages of the credentialing process--appointment, reappointment, and ongoing assessment Get answers to your credentialing questions quickly and easily Study for your CPCS and CPMSM certification exams No other resource for credentialing standards offers you this level of expertise and convenience. All five sets of standards side-by-side, organized by topic, on a searchable CD-ROM The Joint Commission NCQA CMS DNV HFAP Three sets of standards in print in the book (The Joint Commission, NCQA, and CMS) Straightforward, complete summaries of standards Expert interpretation of the standards Distinct sections that clarify the differences between each stage of the credentialing process A tips section that allows for further analysis Special notations to readers who are studying for the CPMSM/CPCS exams Who will benefit? Credentialing specialist/analyst Medical staff services coordinator Director of medical staff services Credentialing coordinator Credentialing manager Medical staff professional Survey coordinator Earn continuing education credits! This program has been approved by the National Association Medical Staff Services for up to 3.0 continuing education unit(s). Accreditation of this educational program in no way implies endorsement or sponsorship by NAMSS. Navigate credentialing standards faster and easier. Order your copy today.

Proctoring, Fppe, and Practitioner Competency Assessment
Proctoring, Fppe, and Practitioner Competency Assessment

Author: Todd Sagin

Publisher:

Published: 2015-09-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781556455001

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Use the sample forms and checklists to conduct proctoring. Find answers to common questions, such as the difference between proctoring and precepting, how OPPE and FPPE relate to proctoring, and how proctoring differs from peer review.

Medical Executive Committee
Medical Executive Committee

Author: Richard A. Sheff

Publisher: Hcpro, a Division of Simplify Compliance

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781601469472

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Get the knowledge needed to serve as an effective Medical Executive Committee Member and fulfill the role well. The MEC Essentials Handbook breaks down the medical executive committee role to facilitate understanding of the responsibilities and strategies for being an exemplary committee member. Oftentimes physicians end up in a leadership position without really knowing what the job entails and what they are meant to accomplish. This handbook can be used as a comprehensive guide for physician leaders throughout their appointment, providing them with the necessary skills and knowledge they may not have received as part of their medical school training and residency. Plus, to make staff training easy, this handbook includes a customizable PowerPoint(R) presentation highlighting key takeaways covered in the handbook. Benefits of The MEC Essentials Handbook: Earn CE and certification credits Assess, document, and comply with The Joint Commission's core competencies Verify the competence of advance practice professionals and allied health professionals Understand the role of physician leaders in focused professional practice evaluation (FPPE), ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE), and peer review Overcome challenges presented by low- and no-volume providers and legal issues such as negligent credentialing Avoid costly, time-consuming fair hearings Oversee professional conduct and confront disruptive behavior What's inside: Compare and contrast the roles and responsibilities of the medical staff, management, and board Describe the dimensions of physician performance Explain the role of MEC as oversight for the credentialing and privileging committee Explain the role of MEC as oversight for the peer review, quality, and patient safety committees Describe the MEC's role in overseeing disruptive physician behavior, according to the law and Joint Commission standards Identify the seven factors of successful medical staff development planning Derive strategies to streamline MEC meetings Table of Contents Chapter 1: Roles and responsibilities of the medical staff, management, and board Chapter 2: The Power of the Pyramid: How to achieve great physician performance Chapter 3: The MEC's role in credentialing and privileging Chapter 4: The MEC's role in peer review, quality, and patient safety Chapter 5: The MEC's role in managing professional conduct Chapter 6: The MEC's role in strategic collaboration with the hospital Chapter 7: Effective MEC meetings