The Minnesota Supreme Court recently ruled that a hospital’s medical staff did have legal standing to sue the hospital’s administration, overturning two lower court decisions.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 1
A study recently published in Academic Medicine found that primary care physicians were more likely to recommend a career as a primary care nurse practitioner than their own career.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 1
At the Credentialing Resource Center Symposium in Las Vegas, March 12-13, 2015, speaker Todd Sagin, MD, JD, will address several hot-button medical staff issues. Sagin offers a unique perspective...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 1
“The drive to reduce readmissions is a noble one. But we have to be realistic too. With an ageing population, this issue is going to remain at the forefront.”
- Suneel Dhand, MD, discusses reducing readmission in a blog post on...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 1
For those of you who have not already registered for the Credentialing Resource Center Symposium, I’d like to let you know the early bird discount has been extended to Friday, January 30. For more information about the symposium or to register,...
CMS last week proposed revisions that would add recognition of same-sex spouses to the Conditions of Participation (CoPs) and Conditions for Coverage (CfCs) relevant to patients in hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, and other healthcare facilities. The changes to definitions and patient...
Concerns about the safety of outpatient surgery centers have mushroomed since the highly publicized death of Joan Rivers in September following routine throat procedures at a year-old free-standing center located in Manhattan. The number of ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) has increased...
Preliminary results of the Specialties Matching Service Match for Appointment Year 2015 are ominous for kidney specialists, according to the American Society of Nephrologists (ASN). “At first glance the results continue the recent trend for declining interest in nephrology careers, with 51%...
The Joint Commission this week announced revisions for prepublication for psychiatric hospitals. Among the revisions are Standard LD.04.03.01, which states that a hospital provides services that meet patient needs. In Element of Performance (EP) A 1, The Joint Commission notes that when...
The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) announced earlier this month that it has recently been certified for a second time by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). The FSMB, which received its initial NCQA Certification in 2012, is certified under NCQA’s Credentials...
