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.

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.

AHA: CMS sticks to 'antiquated' medical staff structure CMS expands medical staff definition to include APRNs, PAs HHS rule to ease hospital system management. Regulatory Providers. Connect.

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.

Governing Body Consultation with Medical Staff Leaders. The Center for Medicare/Medicaid Services (CMS) has pulled back on its recent mandate that a medical staff member serve on a hospital ...

Nationals General Manager Mike Rizzo walked behind the microphone in the press room at Nationals Park and introduced the organization’s new medical staff. Team doctors, trainers and consultants ...