2017 CRC Contest Coverage | It's Winners’ Week! | This week, the Credentialing Resource Center (CRC) is celebrating the inaugural class of CRC Contest winners. These professionals leverage their deep expertise across a broad range of medical staff services and leadership functions, have a penchant for productive interdisciplinary collaboration, and demonstrate unwavering passion for their important work. In honor of this clear commitment to industry excellence, we’re granting all CRC Daily readers and CRC site visitors access to exclusive members-only content about the 2017 CRC Contest winners. Check back in throughout the week for new insights on winners’ paths to professional success and other achievement-focused guidance. |
Profile: 2017 CRC Medical Staff Professional of the Year | If there’s one strengthOlivia Loeffler, CPMSM, CPCS, will claim without protest, it’s an affinity for learning. “I’m always going to be learning more and more and more from somebody else, from my peers, from conferences,” says Loeffler, who is director of medical staff services at Glendale (California) Adventist Medical Center, a member hospital of Adventist Health. |
Profile: 2017 CRC Medical Staff Leader of the Year | When talking about his decision to take on various medical staff leadership roles,James J. Fitzgibbon, MD, FAAP,says it was simply expected of all of medical staff members as part of their citizenship. However, Fitzgibbon’s long, rich history as a medical staff leader at Akron (Ohio) Children’s Hospital indicates that he goes well above just “doing his part.” |
Profile: 2017 CRC Excellence in Medical Staff Collaboration Award winners | How do you make OPPE and FPPE more than just an item on the regulatory compliance checklist? Although it has been 10 years since The Joint Commission released its ongoing and focused professional practice evaluation standards, organizations are still struggling to develop meaningful processes that have true meaning, enhance practitioner performance and patient safety, and garner medical staff support. |
2017 CRC Symposium Case Study Competition winners | Did you miss our February Q&A with the winners of the 2017 CRC Symposium Case Study Competition? Check it out on this fine #TBT for a sneak peek at what Heather Johnson, CPCS, and Traci Shreiber have in store for next month’s CRC Symposium attendees. |
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Medical Staff Leadership Roundup | Use outside data to set MSP salaries | Over the past four decades, medical staff services has evolved from a clerical field into a multifaceted career path. However, a paucity of occupational data and the occasional flare-up of an outdated attitude about the niche profession can pose challenges for the healthcare executives and HR professionals tasked with determining appropriate pay grades for MSPs. |
FPPE redesign plan | Charged with revamping its OPPE and FPPE processes, Ascension Borgess Health in Kalamazoo, Michigan, hired a medical staff quality specialist who used the tools of Lean Six Sigma to complete the project. The forms attached here are some of the tools she used to assess the current state and develop a roadmap for improvements. To read more about the process, click here. |
Survey shows physician engagement is low, but can get better | Only 20% of physicians feel engaged with the organization they work for, according to a survey conducted by athenahealth. The 2016 Physician Leadership and Engagement Index asked physicians to answer three questions about their institutions: whether the organization inspires them to go above and beyond, whether they see themselves working there in the future, and whether they would encourage others to receive care from the organization. |
Heard this week | "As leaders, our job is to encourage physicians to identify and articulate what they need to be happy." |
Consider how personal bias affects peer review | Human nature contributes to bias by allowing us to use psychological “shortcuts” to reduce complexity and ambiguity in the world. We all wish that life were simpler, and our brains try to accommodate this wish by finding shortcuts to decisions by relying on past patterns of thinking. This enables us to provide a rational response within the context of a simpler and less-threatening world. The two main types of bias related to human nature are personal bias and group bias. |
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| Product Spotlight | Meet the CRC contest winners in person Register for the 2017 CRC Symposium, April 6–7 in Austin, Texas, to see our contest winners live at the podium, in sessions, and on the networking scene! This week, CRC is featuring profiles on each of the winners. The 2017 CRC Symposium Case Study Competition and the 2017 CRC Achievement Awards are two brand-new contests recognizing MSPs and medical staff leaders who have made exceptional strides in their organization and the broader professional community. Winners, who were selected by a panel of esteemed industry experts, will be honored at the 2017 CRC Symposium, held April 6–7 in Austin, Texas. | |
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