Medical Staff Briefing - Volume 31, Issue 1

Workers continue to quit, look for new opportunities

January 12, 2022

Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, people in a variety of careers and of all ages and socioeconomic levels are reevaluating their priorities and, in many cases, making career moves. While stories of people leaving their jobs and often their homes in urban centers for a less fast-paced...

Credentialing Resource Center Digest

Healthcare gains 143K jobs in 2021

January 12, 2022

The healthcare sector once again showed little change in employment numbers in December, according to the newest Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) employment report, issued last week.

Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 31, Issue 1

New year means new MSP responsibilities

January 10, 2022

What a couple of years it’s been. We’re almost 24 months out from when COVID-19 started to spread globally, eventually causing millions of deaths and rocking the healthcare industry, and the world, to the core. MSPs have been challenged since then on an administrative, emotional, and personal...

Credentialing Resource Center Digest

Give medical staff leaders a break

January 10, 2022

Remember way back to mid-November when you were counting the days until the beginning of the next medical staff calendar year? Well, the New Year has begun, and with it comes new medical staff leadership, new department chairs, and a host of other changes that require your medical staff's...

Medical Staff Briefing - Volume 32, Issue 1

Medical staff standards: The high-level overview

January 5, 2022

The standards in The Joint Commission’s Medical Staff chapter focus mainly on governance and organization of the medical staff, credentialing and privileging licensed independent practitioners, and overseeing the clinical activities of those practitioners.

Credentialing Resource Center Digest

Study: Telemedicine just as good for treating chronic illnesses

January 5, 2022

A recent study finds that replacing or augmenting in-person healthcare visits with telemedicine care yielded similar or better outcomes in certain scenarios.

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