A bitter professional dispute has impaired The University of Arizona Medical Center’s world-famous transplant services. The hospital’s heart transplant program is on hiatus, as is its lung transplant program. Two other programs recently closed after the doctor who created them—department of...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 3
Health systems that participate in New York’s plan to distribute medical marijuana could run afoul of federal laws, jeopardizing their government funding, according to advocates in that state. Hospitals in other states where medical pot is legal have steered clear of distributing the drug for...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 2
The American Hospital Association (AHA) and Minnesota Hospital Association (MHA) have urged the Minnesota Supreme Court to affirm a lower court ruling that a hospital’s governing body may unilaterally amend its medical staff bylaws, the AHA stated last week. “When seemingly irreconcilable...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 1
As the debate over expanding advance practice professionals’ scope of practice continues nationwide, nurse practitioners (NP) in Maryland are asking for changes in state laws and regulations that limit their ability to practice independently as primary care providers. They are also seeking more...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 1
The role of advance practice professionals (APP) has expanded considerably over the last several years, and as the number of practicing APPs continues to increase, this subset of medical professionals is expected to continue taking on greater responsibilities when it comes to...
Psychologists practice in an increasingly varied range of healthcare settings. This article provides an overview of the educational and practice options that are available to psychologists along with some of the recent regulatory changes that may affect the credentialing of psychologists.
The United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida granted summary judgment in favor of a hospital related to claims of race discrimination brought by a Palestinian physician. The Court declined to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the physician's...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 50
Premier's Accountable Care Organization and Population Health Management Trends survey, released last week, points to steady growth of ACOs, although the pace of growth is slower than anticipated. More than 18% of respondents say their hospitals currently participate in an ACO, up from 4....
Over many decades, Toyota Motor Corporation developed a Lean production to standardize work and reap the benefit of improved methodologies that impact the quality of a product. The base aims of standardized work are to impact and improve customer satisfaction while eliminating wasted,...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 12
Do ambulatory setting and hospital privileging requirements need to match? Who can assess the competence of a practitioner when he or she is the only one with knowledge of a given specialty? In the final installment of the three-part webcast series "Overcoming Competency...
