Responding Effectively to Adverse CMS, State, and Accreditation Findings

Uncover practical approaches for how to work with regulators and implement meaningful, sustainable, and efficient corrective action.

Protecting Suicidal Patients

Suicide prevention is at the top of The Joint Commission's list of frequently cited issues. Our panelists will break down the complexities into a streamlined process for clinicians and regulators.

EMTALA Made Simple

Learn practical approaches to achieve sustained compliance through simple, satisfying, and safe solutions.

Need to Know: Five Focus Areas to Help You Prepare for Regulatory Surveys

Five focus areas for regulatory survey success plus a checklist: What new healthcare leaders need to know to prepare for regulatory surveys.

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.

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?

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.

Make Your MSSD a Performance Powerhouse

Industry consolidation, regulatory challenges, new payment models, a jump in physician employment—how well is your Medical Staff Services Department (MSSD) managing change?