The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) rules state that the hospital must have a call roster naming specific physicians (not groups) for the specialties on call. The call roster must be posted conspicuously, at all times, in the emergency department and be maintained for...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 5
Dr. Anna Pou, who stayed with her patients at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans for several days despite intense heat and no electricity, was accused of murdering several patients during those harrowing days. Most of the charges were later dropped, but her story inspired the development of ...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 5
The American Board of Physician Specialties (ABPS) recently announced the new American Board of Hospital Medicine, which offers board certification exclusively for inpatient specialists (a.k.a. hospitalists) for the first time ever.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 4
It’s a new year, which means you have new medical staff leaders on your team. We can’t bring you the palm trees and warm breezes you experience attending an off-site seminar, but our virtual workshop can deliver the education your medical staff leaders need to navigate the road ahead.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 4
Are you interested in sharing your strategies for tackling contemporary medical staff challenges? Then fill out an application to be part of The Greeley Medical Staff Institute Symposium November 8-9 at the Ritz-Carlton in Naples, FL!
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 4
Arrange to meet with the chair of each committee, even if only for 15 minutes, to plan and go over the agenda before each scheduled committee meeting. Be sure to include these agenda items.
