Policy-Development Process: How to Avoid Non-Compliance and Self-Inflicted Citations

Advice and guidance for hospitals to ensure their policy development doesn’t become a gap in the survey-preparedness process.

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.

Don’t Let Your Hospital’s Social Media Become a Compliance Challenge

It’s difficult to imagine that a simple social media post by your healthcare organization could quickly transition into a regulatory firestorm for your compliance team. Yet here we are.

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.

Five Things Hospitals Should Expect From Regulators and Accreditors in 2022

It’s time to dust off my crystal ball and preview hot topics for CMS / State Survey Agencies and The Joint Commission (TJC) for the coming year—and how you can prepare for each.

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?

A Must Read: Comprehensive COVID Regulatory Checklist

The pandemic has disrupted nearly everything since spring of 2020. Check out this comprehensive checklist for busy hospitals. It’s a “one-stop shop” with all of the rules in one place.

#PreventionReady: Infection Sources Hide in Unexpected Places

Over the past few years, attention has been drawn away from some of the more routine, yet extremely necessary, activities and oversight needed in healthcare facilities.

Making a Case to De-compartmentalize Psychiatric Patient Care

When patients arrive to an emergency department, chronic and acute medical conditions are sometimes overlooked in mental health patients. It's time to de-compartmentalize our approach.