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Contest entry: Note-taking form
Happy Free Form Friday! Here’s another great form that came in for The Greeley Medical Staff Institute Symposium contest.
Tommie Cooper, CPMSM, director of medical staff services at Sky Ridge Medical Center, developed this clever note-taking form for physicians. To prevent them from inadvertently walking away with documents that shouldn’t leave the meeting room, Tommie prints them on colored paper (a different color for every month) so that everyone is aware of what documents are coming and going.
Thanks for sharing, Tommie! You can download the note-taking form (Word doc.) here .
Remember, there’s still time to submit your contest entries to win two free seats to The Greeley Medical Staff Institute Symposium. Find contest details here!
Contest entry: Disruptive physician policy
It’s an issue every institution unfortunately has to deal with – disruptive physicians.
Debi Davis, CPMSM, director of medical staff services at Cumberland Medical Center, sent in this disruptive physician policy to share with others as part of her entry into The Greeley Medical Staff Institute Symposium contest.
You can download the disruptive physician policy (Word doc.) here.
There’s still time to submit your best practices, tools, or tips to win two free seats to The Greeley Medical Staff Institute Symposium contest.
Contest entry: Med Staff Summary Profile for Initial and Reappointment
Happy Friday! Here’s another great free form to celebrate the end of the week.
Medical Staff Coordinator Shirley Prihoda, CPCS, of Brazosport Regional Health System submitted this tool.
Shirley says, “This was created to give the Credentials Committee, MEC and the Board a quick summary of initial and reappointments to have a more concise view of the applicant.”
You can download the Medical Staff Summary Template (Word doc). Remember to select “view” and “print layout” to display the actual document.
Thanks for sharing this tool!
Keep those contest entries coming, and you could win the free registration to The Greeley Medical Staff Institute Symposium (Nov. 8-9, Naples, Fl)! We’ve already announced two winners!
We’ll share the entries on the blog and select the best one at the end of the month.
To enter the drawing, submit your best practice, tool, or tip to us. Find more details here!
Contest entry: Credentialing application flowsheet
Here’s another great tool from one contest submission.
Kim Everett, medical staff coordinator at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes, Indiana, uses a great, comprehensive application flowsheet while credentialing physicians and allied health personnel during the application process.
Kim says,
“It has been a valuable instrument as the credentialing staff process and verify information contained in the application. It also provides coworkers with immediate information regarding the status of the application, as we can quickly see references that remain outstanding, any board certification or licensure issues, along with unresolved issues or potential ‘red flags.’
The application flowsheet is also used as a quick reference when presenting the application to the Credentials and Audit and MEC committees, as they consider the applicant for membership and privileges.“
You can download the credentialing application flowsheet here.
Keep those contest entries coming, and you could win the free registration to The Greeley Medical Staff Institute Symposium (Nov. 8-9, Naples, Fl)!
We’ll share the entries on the blog and select the best one at the end of the month.
To enter the drawing, submit your best practice, tool, or tip to us. Find more details here!
Contest winner: Physician reappointment tools
Thank you to all the readers for their great work and entries submitted for the August giveaway for two free seats at the Greeley Medical Staff Institute Symposium (November 8-9, Naples, Fl).
July’s giveaway went to Nancy Bertling, RN, MBA, quality manager of TOPS Surgical Specialty Hospital in Houston, TX for submitting a physician report card for quality and re-credentialing.
This time, August’s giveaway goes to Lana Heavilin, RN, a medical staff office coordinator in the quality department of Holland Hospital, in MI. Lana submitted tools for physician reappointment. She writes:
“We were finding when a physician came up for reappointment, and he had procedures with number [of] requirements to maintain to privilege, he/she might be surprised to find they didn’t meet the numbers, and has not time to rectify the problem.
So, every six months I run a report out of our software program (Midas) and give each provider a report of the privileges they have requested, the number needed to maintain the privilege and the actual number they have done. This way there are no surprises at reappointment time!”
You can download the following tools:
- Volume requirements worksheet (Word doc.)
- Letter for volume report (Word doc.)
- Sample report for cardiology (PDF)
Congrats to Lana!
For all other readers, you can still submit your entry of your best practice, tip, or tool to improve medical staff office tasks, improves return on investment, or raises the quality of care. Keep those entries coming! Find more details here.
Contest winner: Physician report card tool
Source: TOPS Surgical Specialty Hospital, Houston, TX.
Congratulations to Nancy Bertling, RN, MBA, quality manager of TOPS Surgical Specialty Hospital in Houston, TX! Nancy is the July winner for the Greeley Medical Staff Institute Symposium giveaway for two free seats at the Nov. 8-9 seminar in Naples, Fl.
Nancy submitted a report card for quality and re-credentialing that keeps track of physician activity. This tool is also used in dashboards for quality and peer review.
You can download the physician report card here. Thanks for sharing, Nancy!
To all the readers, you can still submit your entry for next month’s contest. Find details here. Keep those entries coming, and good luck!
Free Form: Financial terms tip sheet
Got money on the brain? You’re not alone. From national news stories about the economy to your department’s own budget balancing act, chances are you’re spending more time with your calculator than you did in ninth grade algebra.
Although budgeting may not be the focus of your medical staff responsibilities, your department may be relying on you more than usual to help pinch pennies. This is probably especially true if you participate in a new technology assessment committee. The cost of high quality care may be priceless, but that new piece of surgical equipment your practitioners have their eyes on, it comes with a hefty price tag.
To help you manage you new role as a money maven, check out this financial terms tip sheet. It was developed by Intuitive Surgical, Inc., makers of the da Vinci surgical system.
Free Form Friday returns: ED call compensation white paper
We received a terrific response to the free forms we posted on the Credentialing Resource Center blog every Friday in January. Now we have another great form to share with you–for free!
Authored by Rick Sheff, MD, CMSL, chair and executive director with The Greeley Company, this white paper provides insights for both medical staffs and physicians to approach ED call coverage and compensation in the fairest way-as a negotiation based on interests and principles.
“Physicians and hospitals are struggling to determine which physicians should be paid for call and how much they should be paid, which, in essence, is a negotiation…The problem is that most physicians have not been trained in negotiation,” says Sheff.
Free Form Friday: OPPE policy
Welcome back to the fifth – and final – week of Free Form Friday!
This week’s form is a sample ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE). It contains the framework of one medical staff’s OPPE policy, and is intended to be customized by individual departments. As always, it is a sample form and should be tailored to comply with your organization’s policies.
To access this week’s form, click here.
Free Form Friday – Application for medical staff reappointment
Welcome back to the fourth week of Free Form Friday!
This week’s form is an application for medical staff reappointment. It was submitted by a reader who works at a long-term acute care hospital that follows the standards and guidelines for acute care hospitals. The form is already partially filled in to show readers how it functions, and can be customized to meet your medical staff’s needs.
To access this week’s form, click here.
What free form would you like to see next week? Drop me a line at eberry@hcpro.com and let me know.
Cheers!
Emily Berry
Associate Editor