The American Hospital Association (AHA) is urging acute care organizations to invite their Congressional representatives—who are currently out for August recess—to visit their local hospitals. "Let them see your quality improvements, work to reduce readmissions, investments in health information...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 32
During the last 20 years, healthcare employment has stayed on a steady, strong upward trajectory. But now that steady upward climb is showing signs of flattening out, according to a US News & World Report article last week. July jobs data showed healthcare added only 2,500 jobs, its...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 32
Maine Medical Center announced a slate of personnel and payroll cuts earlier this week, including the elimination of 175 positions, layoffs of 50 employees, and 12.5% reductions in compensation for top hospital administrators.
A veteran nurse present during a botched kidney transplant the University of Toledo Medical Center, in Toledo, Ohio, last summer has sued for wrongful termination. The lawsuit filed last week in Columbus seeks $25,000 for Melanie LeMay, a nurse suspended then fired after a different nurse...
Medicare will levy $227 million in fines against hospitals nationwide for the second round of the government’s campaign to reduce the number of patients readmitted within a month, according to federal records released last week. Medicare identified 2,225 hospitals that will have payments reduced...
Hospitals should conduct drug tests on all physicians and nurses, especially following an adverse event, and physicians and nurses should be ready to comply, according to New York University Langone Medical Center’s Director of the Division of Medical Ethics. In a MedPage Today article...
Massachusetts’ largest nurses union will ask voters to do what the State Legislature has refused to do: establish statewide limits on the number of hospital patients assigned to each nurse. The Massachusetts Nurses Association launched a Facebook campaign earlier this week and an Internet...
The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) and the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) last week released a joint paper that advocates for physician-led, team-based care, while defining the critical roles physician assistants (PAs) and physicians play in improving access to high-...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 31
The American Hospital Association’s Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative has announced a primer for hospitals and healthcare systems as they transition to value-based contracting arrangements. “In the evolving business model, hospitals, healthcare systems, physician groups and other...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 31
Physician-owned hospitals, which are prohibited from accepting Medicare and Medicaid patients, are nonetheless expanding in North Texas by catering to and cashing in on a narrow patient market. Victory Healthcare and Forest Park Medical Center are two examples of physician-owned hospitals which...
