Description

The Joint Commission’s Medical Staff (MS) standards provide a detailed description of the medical staff’s roles and responsibilities. But those standards have always been challenging to understand and apply. Medical Staff Essentials is a clear, concise, accurate reference that breaks down difficult concepts in the MS standards into easy-to-digest pieces. It’s designed to be your go-to guide on the essentials of the MS standards—and related concepts—to help you successfully select and manage your medical staff

Key Topics:

• • Medical staff bylaws, rules and regulations, and policies
• • Clinical credentialing and privileging
• • Appointment to the medical staff
• • Practitioner competence assessment
• • Professional practice evaluations (FPPE and OPPE)

Key Features:

• • Reader-friendly tone and engaging format
• • Numerous infographics the clarify complex content
• • Scenarios that show application of key chapter information
• • Example policies and other documents from real hospitals
• • Nearly two dozen downloadable, writeable tools
• • Medical Staff and related standards and terms
• • Reviewed by Joint Commission experts

Standards: Medical Staff

Setting: Hospitals and critical access hospital

Key Audience:

• • Governing body
• • Organized medical staff
• • Medical staff
• • Medical executive committee
• • Credentialing committee
• • Hospital administration
• • Medical staff services
• • Survey coordination team
• • Accreditation team
• • Legal counsel
• • Performance improvement team
• • Risk management team

Doody's Reviews

Quotes, Reviews or Testimonials

"The book's graphics and various examples from other organizations are interesting and help readers grasp the requirements of The Joint Commission medical staff standards. I would recommend this as an added reference in accreditation departments and for medical executive committees."

-- Debra DellaRatta, MSN, CPHQ (James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital) Doody's Review

Audience

The book exceeds the needs of the intended audience -- staff involved in medical staff standards compliance: governing bodies, organized medical staff, medical staff, accreditation/survey teams, risk management/legal counsel, performance improvement teams, and medical executive and credentialing committees. The content development manager is a subject matter expert and the reviewers are employed by The Joint Commission and Joint Commission Resources.

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