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You are here > Home > Reading Lists > Physician Executive & Practice Management > Essential Guide to Medical Staff Reappointment The Essential Guide to Medical Staff Reappointment, 2nd Edition Beverly Pybus, CPMSM Softbound Book + bonus CD-ROM ISBN 1601461240 9781601461247 HCPro / Opus Earn NAMSS CE credits! March 2008 (click button below for the very best currently available price for this resource) This book guides you with effective reappointment procedures to help you comply with the JCAHO, keep patients safe, and protect your facility's reputation.  To help you streamline your reappointment approach, you'll receive practical tips and tools on how to navigate the reappointment process, use peer review data, assess low-volume providers-and how to do it all before your physicians' privileges expire. With The Essential Guide to Medical Staff Reappointment you'll receive: Two resources: both the book and CD-ROM A detailed approach to reappointing medical staff members Advice on how to evaluate clinical competence for quality reappointment Tools to implement reappointment best practices, such as: worksheet for developing privileging criteria performance monitoring forms, and reappointment documentation checklist Expert guidance on how to reappoint low-volume providers Step-by-step process to develop an excellent peer review process Sample policies that address critical reappointment challenges, such as: Initial appointment Impaired or dysfunctional physicians Disruptive medical staff members, peer review indemnifications, and denials of reappointment requests National Practitioner Data Bank querying and reporting The CD-ROM contains documents that you can customize that will help you streamline your reappointment while complying with the JCAHO and regulatory standards, reducing the risk of negligent credentialing suits, and ensuring quality patient care. The user-friendly CD-ROM that comes with this book provides you with: more than 50 sample policies, checklists, and forms you can tailor for your facility a reappointment profile reappointment documentation list, and verification process flowchart.  Busy professionals like you need to take the time now to update your reappointment processes to avoid negligent credentialing suits and problems with the JCAHO - but this can be time-consuming. You know all too well that the JCAHO standard for the reappointment of physicians has been on the JCAHO's list of top problematic standards for years. Late paperwork, competency issues, lack of meaningful performance data, and new technologies and procedures all bog down the reappointment process. To help you improve your program, this book also thoroughly covers these topics: The role of department chairs, MEC, and credentials committee Delineation of clinical privileging Peer review and physician profiles Non-active and low-volume practitioners Information collection and verification Procedural due process Corrective action Leave of absence Retraining of physicians Credentialing failures Professional review action With this comprehensive step-by-step solution to your reappointment process, you’ll be able to: Bring your organization up-to-date on Joint Commission requirements Achieve the seamless integration of old processes with new requirements such as focused and ongoing professional practice evaluations Collect competency data using an ongoing, criteria-based process as required by The Joint Commission Integrate practitioner competency data into your reappointment process Address challenging issues like low- and no-volume practitioners and refer-and-follow privileging Obtain data for all six of the Joint Commission-mandated general competencies, make the evaluation of practitioner performance more timely, and identify trends in an ongoing way with The Essential Guide to Medical Staff Reappointment. This tool-based guide to reappointment will help you: Gather quality data that incorporate focused and ongoing professional practice evaluations Tackle reappointment hotspots such as low- and no-volume providers Develop a workable timeline for assessing the competence of current medical staff members Improve physician performance prior to the reappointment process Integrate the latest technology into your processes Identify legal pitfalls and red flags The table of contents includes: After the initial appointment: A changing landscape Collecting and assessing quality data: Building an ongoing process The credentialing process at reappointment The privileging process at reappointment Roles and responsibilities Special considerations and difficult issues Avoiding mistakes: Common legal pitfalls and red flags Physician retraining: Issues to watch Tricks of the trade: Incorporating technology into your process Tips from the field: Best practices Tools: Forms and policies to guide your process Earn NAMSS CE credits!   This program has been approved by the National Association Medical Staff Services for up to 6 continuing education unit(s). Accreditation of this educational program in no way implies endorsement or sponsorship by NAMSS. Anne Roberts, CPCS, CPMSM, is a credentialing and privileging specialist who has consulted on various credentialing, privileging, and medical staff issues. She is also the director of medical affairs at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas where she oversees the medical administration, graduate medical education, and medical staff services departments. As a consultant, Roberts has worked with healthcare organizations across the country to prepare for regulatory surveys, assist with bylaw revisions, draft policies and procedures, and reorganize medical staff services departments. Roberts holds dual certifications as a professional medical staff manager and a certified provider credentialing specialist through the National Association Medical Staff Services (NAMSS). She is a member of the NAMSS membership committee and is the lead consultant for their national mentoring program. Roberts has written numerous publications for several national organizations. With more than 17 years of experience, HCPro, Inc. is a leading provider of integrated information, education, training, and consulting products and services in the vital areas of healthcare regulation and compliance. The company's mission is to meet the specialized informational, advisory, and educational needs of the healthcare industry. As an acknowledged industry authority in healthcare regulation and compliance, HCPro focuses on providing its clients assistance and expertise in the areas of accreditation, medical staff affairs, credentialing, privileging, medical record management, regulatory compliance, nursing, quality/patient safety, infection control, and workplace safety. 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