Mitigating Healthcare Labor Shortages, Even Before They Happen, with Tim Barger

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted healthcare organizations nationwide to think more strategically about workforce strategies, including interim staffing solutions. A contingent workforce strategy can help organizations navigate these labor challenges with greater ease and minimal operational

Credentialing & Privileging Optimization and Alignment

The Medical Staff Services Department (MSSD) is central to organization-wide success. Discover how to optimize and align your MSSD to improve performance.

From Underperforming to Powerhouse: How a Multi-Hospital Health System Operationalized High-Performing Medical Staff Services

This organization teamed with us to transform Medical Staff Services through outsourcing the entirety of the functions managed by the department.

Establishing and Leveraging a CVO: A Gateway to Safety, Savings, and Simplification

A Credentialing Verification Organization (CVO) model offers financial benefits for hospitals and improved efficiency for providers and patients. Our expert explains the advantages.

Focused Professional Practice Evaluation (FPPE): To Report or Not Report. National Practitioner Data Bank’s New Definition of “Investigation.”

Focused Professional Practice Evaluation (FPPE): Report or not? NPDB’s new definition of “investigation.” Protect medical staff while making the most of FPPE.

Take the Risk Out of “Training Up” Your APPs

Privilege-redesign projects can reveal something unexpected. Often, advanced practice professionals being “trained up” without privileging. A formal process is needed to mitigate risk.

Should Independent Advanced Practice Registered Nurses be Medical Staff?

Many states allow APRNs to practice independently (and more may head in this direction). So, if APRNs can practice independently, does that mean they MUST be members of the medical staff?

10 Essential Steps to Successfully Achieve Criteria-based Privileging Across a System

As healthcare becomes integrated through M&A, one of the most difficult challenges for a system or network to achieve is an effective system-wide criteria based privileging methodology.

System-wide Medical Staff Integration

As we prepare for a changed future, health systems must make it easier for medical staff to effectively deliver care across the system, without unnecessary barriers, bureaucracy or costs.

Emergency, Temporary or Disaster Privileges – Which One is Right for You?

What does the activation of an Emergency Operations / Emergency Response Plan (EOP) mean for the Medical Staff Services Department?