The boards of Kindred Healthcare and Gentiva Health Services unanimously approved a deal that would create one of the country’s largest operator of long-term acute care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, and home health and hospice services, with an expected annual...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 41
“My answer when people ask me how to motivate doctors: Give them the tools they need to make the changes that will benefit their patients. Collaborate with them on coming up with solutions to your institution’s ailments. Allow them to come up with solutions and have skin in the game,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 41
One quarter of the hospitals around the country have been left out of some of the biggest shifts in U.S. healthcare initiated by the Affordable Care Act. The Department of Health and Human Services has not yet incorporated the 1,256 primarily rural, “critical access” hospitals into Medicare’...
In fiscal year 2012-2013, the Florida Department of Health received 661 unlicensed medical activity complaints, the state’s Board of Medicine reported earlier this week. Of those complaints, 596 were referred for investigation, 183 resulted in cease-and-desist notices, 79 individuals were...
If you’re attending the NAMSS 38th Educational Conference and Exhibition next week in New Orleans, what are you looking forward to the most? Is it the keynotes? The sessions and panel discussions? Maybe the networking opportunities? The camaraderie of hundreds of people who know what you do...
