“At some point in almost every physician’s career, we had a powerful desire to help others. When suffering burnout, many of us become so disillusioned by our failure to achieve these aspirations that our passion is replaced by a strong contempt, bordering on hatred, for the profession we chose...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 35
If you missed (or can’t wait to go again) our 2015 Credentialing Resource Center Symposium in Las Vegas, mark your calendar now for the 2016 event, to be held April 7-8, 2016, in Orlando, Florida. Join us for two days of valuable education and training, taught by leading...
What are the boards of healthcare organizations hearing about their role? No matter which conferences you attend or healthcare news you read, there are two major themes:
1. The board is accountable for quality of care, not just finance
Today's free resource is a sample form for creating an FPPE plan from Beebe Healthcare, a community hospital in Lewes, Delaware. Beebe’s policy allows concurrent OPPE and FPPE when an applicant is coming out of a residency program or another hospital with credentials that indicate he or she is...
The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) quietly updated its guidelines last spring, and the changes have left many medical staff services departments wondering what—if anything—they must do differently. If your medical staff has questions, tune in to "FPPE and the Revised NPDB Guidebook: How...
The Supreme Court of Michigan (the Court), reversing the decision of a trial court, held that objective facts contained in an incident report are protected by the state's peer review statute.
