Hospitals are improving the quality of care in heart attack, pneumonia, surgery, and children’s asthma patients, according to a new report, Improving America’s Hospitals: The Joint Commission’s Report on Quality and Safety 2010.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 39
The Emergency System for Advance Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals (ESAR-VHP) launched a new website that allows interested providers to register in advance to assist in emergency situations, such as a natural disaster...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 39
The proposed Common Program Requirements spell out several new standards. The following are some of the most significant changes that may affect the operations of medical staffs in academic medical centers
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 39
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and governance, credentialing and privileging, physician leadership,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 38
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and governance, credentialing and privileging, physician leadership,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 38
If your medical staff is struggling with the decision whether to use its own legal counsel or the hospital’s legal counsel, arrange for a discussion between your medical staff leaders and their counterparts at area hospitals.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 38
The first step in choosing an appropriate overall physician-to-population ratio for a community is to use publicly available data to obtain or estimate current physician-to-population ratios in as many comparable medical markets as possible.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 37
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and governance, credentialing and privileging, physician leadership,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 37
To establish fair market value for physician ED call services, determine what those services actually are. Use objective data and ask physicians which of their ED services may be weighed. Keep in mind that services include more than procedures performed; they may also include information about...
