Healthcare staffing models will shift to reduce post-discharge complications that can land patients back in the hospital, hospital executives and quality experts predict. Along with redeploying or retraining staff to avoid Medicare readmission penalties, some expect increased hiring for...
A New York state judge has ordered Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., to keep up its level of staffing after complaints by hospital workers that the State University of New York was allowing it to wither away even as officials publicly claimed they were doing everything possible...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 26
New Joint Commission requirements and revisions address leadership accountability for hospitalwide emergency management in hospitals and critical access hospitals. The prepublication requirements and revisions, announced earlier this week, provide a clearer description of leadership-level...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 26
Teaching hospitals with a higher intensity of physician-training activity achieve lower mortality rates, but higher hospitalization readmission rates for key medical diagnoses, according to a study in the July issue of Medical Care. The disparity in readmissions is greatest for “safety-...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 26
Spanish surgeons put "augmented reality" technology to the test last week in Madrid, where a chondrocyte transplant operation was carried out using Google Glass to allow experts in the U.S. to live-consult the procedure in real-time, streaming on the Internet. A 49-year-old man underwent the...
Members of the U.S. Senate Rural Health Caucus have introduced a bill that would allow general supervision by physician or nonphysician providers (NPPs) for many outpatient therapy services, politicalnews.me reported. S.1143, the Protecting Access to Rural Therapy Services (PARTS) Act, counters...
A survey by Monster.com found that healthcare professionals as a group are the third most satisfied with all aspects of their job, trailing only engineering and finance employees. Registered nurses, physical therapists and occupational therapists are currently the top three occupations in...
For healthcare providers looking to ensure the security of electronic patient information, it's just as important to solidify employee knowledge as it is to encrypt data and implement improved IT solutions, says Lee Kim, an attorney with Pittsburgh-based firm Tucker Arensberg who also serves as...
The American Medical Association voted Tuesday to declare obesity a disease, a move that effectively defines 78 million American adults and 12 million children as having a medical condition requiring treatment. The AMA's decision essentially makes diagnosis and treatment of obesity a physician's...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 25
Carle Foundation Hospital, of Urbana, Ill., has investigated three instances where surgical team members shared pictures taken on their own cellphones with other surgical employees. In all three cases, the photographs were requested by the surgeon involved for legitimate purposes and Carle’s...
