Take Advantage of Resources about Revised Medical Staff Standard

• 6/9/2010
• Author: Janet Pimentel
• Category: The Source Blog
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I don’t know if any of you had an opportunity to participate in the free April 22 conference call about the revised Medical Staff Standard MS.01.01.01. I did and found it to be very helpful because Chuck Mowll, executive vice president of Business Development, Government, and External Relations for The Joint Commission, led the discussion by summarizing each element of performance and outlining the changes to this standard, which will take effect March 31, 2011. He described the revisions as minimal changes that will add flexibility to allow hospitals, the medical staff, and governing bodies to address content in the medical staff bylaws and really should require a limited amount of resistance. If you missed it, you are in luck because a replay of that conference call and a free transcript are available on The Joint Commission’s Web site until late July. It’s important for hospitals and critical access hospitals to take advantage of these resources because they will need time to assess what requirements in the revised standard have already been addressed in their medical staff bylaws, what information is missing, and how they will decide to resolve it. If you are looking for additional how-to strategies for this revised standard, you can also check out the cover story on the June 2010 issue of The Joint Commission: The Source newsletter.

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