With Medicare reimbursements becoming increasingly linked to patient safety issues, healthcare leaders are striving to create a culture of safety at their hospitals. Hospital & Health Networks recently provided an overview of the areas hospitals need to focus on to improve patient...
Risk management in hospitals and healthcare organizations is very complex. Successful risk management programs require a systematic approach for detecting, tracking, and recording unusual occurrences as well as establishing proactive measures to mitigate risks along multiple fronts.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 4
HCPro’s Credentialing Resource Center now has a Twitter account (@hcpro_crc) for an easy way to hear about our latest news, including updates about the upcoming...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 2
This issue marks my last as editor of the Credentialing Resource Center Journal. I'll be moving over to HCPro's home health and hospice product space, including the Homecare DIRECTION newsletter. Delaney Rebernik, who currently manages home health and hospice, will be...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 3
Strengthening support for physician-led team-based care will be a top legislative priority, according to medical association leaders who recently met at the AMA’s State Legislative Strategy Conference. AMA model state legislation that encourages a physician leadership framework will be under...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 3
Hospitals that often refer patients to inpatient facilities are more likely to readmit the patients within 30 days, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles. Those hospitals had a 24.1% chance of readmitting patients compared to the 21.2% for hospitals...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 2
Medical staff leaders need to understand that the path followed for non-conformance by employed physicians may follow a different process than that outlined in medical staff documents. A best practice is to develop a clear policy for how the more common performance issues will be handled. This...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 1
With the exception of states in the Northeast and upper Midwest, states are falling below the recommended supply of active primary care physicians, according to the Association of American Medical College’s annual physician workforce report.
The real challenge on the outpatient side comes when we try to apply the principles of inpatient privileging to the ambulatory world. Many organizations have only a vague idea of what clinical activity is going on in physician office practices
