Policies and procedures: The effective medical staff develops clearly understood policies addressing key issues, such as code of conduct, medical record documentation, national patient safety goal ...

Medical staffs are challenged to create an effective and efficient medical staff structure that relieves physicians of excessive administrative or time-intensive tasks, Dr. Hoppa says.

Contributor Joseph D. Cooper, MD, a senior consultant for The Greeley Company, offers advice for modernizing medical staff bylaws to improve physician-hospital collaboration.

The policies were developed by and used in New England Baptist Hospital and Cooley Dickinson Hospital. While the sample policies provided by the Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical ...

To build a more safety-driven medical staff, consider these transparency enhancement concepts: • Have a process for communicating with the medical staff about publicly released information.

A Minnesota district court ruled medical staff bylaws are not a contract between hospitals and physicians, challenging the traditional role that bylaws serve between management and clinicians ...

With a new medical staff structure, St. Mary's Hospital in Madison, Wisc., saw successful integration, according President Frank Byrne in yesterday's Hospital Impact blog post. The new medical ...

The new structure will be headed by Harvey Sharman, nominally the Executive Director of Medical Services, formerly Director of Sports Medicine for Leeds Football Club.