Rhode Island became the first state in the U.S. to adopt a flu immunization requirement for all healthcare workers, students, trainees, and volunteers who may have direct contact with patients. The Rhode Island Department of Health announced that the new amendments to its rules and regulations...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 13, Issue 43
Because it is difficult to have all clinical areas represented in a well-functioning committee, it is best to have a core committee that maintains the following representation, but does not exceed 15-20 standing members.
To a patient, whether a physician is employed by the hospital or practices independently makes no difference, but for the medical staff office, keeping track of who is employed and who isn't can be a pain in the neck. Employed physicians must follow a set of rules that don't...
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that a hospital is not precluded from making claims of immunity and reversed a trial court's decision that awarded a physician punitive damages following the suspension of the physician's medical staff privileges.
In October, CMS started dinging hospitals for what it considers excessive readmission rates. Some top-ranked hospitals, such as Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, and North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y., will have to...
Change never really ends. Medical staff members, leaders, and hospital administrators at Better Times Hospital learned many valuable lessons from the medical staff governance change initiative, including the following...
