“Hospitals can do more to protect patients. Improved security, such as surveillance of drug storage areas, tighter chain of custody on drugs, and better tracking of controlled substances are obvious areas to target,” wrote Inspector General Daniel R. Levinson and Erika T. Broadhurst, a special...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 12
The U.S. Supreme Court recently announced it will hear North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal Trade Commission to determine whether a federal agency has the right to intervene in state medical licensure board decisions.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 12
The nation will get a good look this week at the future faces of medicine. Friday is Match Day, the high-pressure equivalent of Draft Day in professional sports, when medical school seniors find out where they will be doing their residency training. Students found out Monday whether they...
“I am a ‘collaborating physician,’ and I support the effort to remove the requirement for a collaborative agreement for nurse practitioners to practice in New York,” wrote Devin Coppola, MD, in a letter to the editor that appeared online last week on the Syracuse Post-...
About 90% of hospitals and other healthcare facilities reported using locum tenens physicians at some point in 2013, up from 74% in 2012, according to a survey conducted by Staff Care, a national temporary healthcare staffing firm. Filling in for a physician who left was the most cited reason...
Nurse practitioners (NP) in New York can diagnose conditions and prescribe medications as long as they have a written agreement with a collaborating physician. However, a bill in the New York State Legislature attached to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s budget proposal would eliminate the need for a...
