In an effort to enhance management skills and improve patient outcomes, L.A. Care Health Plan is offering physicians a six-month training program to become better leaders.
As physician shortages grow, the number of advanced practice professionals (APP) applying for hospital and ambulatory privileges is rising rapidly. Carol Cairns, CPMSM, CPCS, advisory consultant with The Greeley Company and president of PRO-CON, an Illinois-based medical staff...
As the healthcare industry shifts to models of care that focus on improved patient outcomes and efficiency, having an engaged physician workforce is critical because physicians drive the majority quality decisions at hospitals and health systems.
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Since microhospitals are currently subject to regulations developed decades ago and with larger acute care institutions in mind, they can run into compliance obstacles that their traditional counterparts don’t often encounter or are better equipped to handle. Compared to a tertiary hospital,...
“When no one talks about making mistakes, it can seem like you’re the only one struggling. And more importantly, when we aren’t talking about our mistakes, we aren’t fixing them.”
Hospitals and health systems may be losing billions of dollars due to physician burnout, according to a paper released by the National Taskforce for Humanity in Healthcare (NTH). The NTH estimates that burnout-related turnover may cost health systems up to $1.7 billion annually for hospital-...
CRC members can peruse all the online articles from the April 2018 issues of Credentialing Resource Center Journal and Medical Staff Briefing—as well as full-...
