Most medical staff bylaws contain a provision concerning the categories into which the medical staff will be divided. In fact, many medical staffs have created an unnecessarily complex array of categories. Many of these categories were created 20–30 years ago as medical staffs tried to...
This past July, the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine unanimously passed two new rules aimed at further regulating overlapping surgeries to optimize patient safety in the operating room. As defined by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, overlapping surgery, sometimes...
Since June 2018, the medical staff services department at Indiana University (IU) Health Bloomington Hospital has conducted a well-received new provider orientation (NPO) program. NPO is scheduled every Monday and Tuesday and canceled when it is not needed. Leaders are responsible for making...
Hospital mergers and acquisitions continue in response to the evolving regulatory environment in the healthcare industry. National healthcare policy is driving the urge to merge across the healthcare sector. While decreasing reimbursements for traditional fee-for-service care from...
