The 21st annual National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week is just ahead, from November 3-9. In honor of all that MSPs do, HCPro is offering you and your colleagues a 20% discount on all of our medical staff and credentialing products from November 4 to 8. Visit the HCMarketplace...
Tucked away on the far side of mountain passes in northeast Oregon, the 25-bed critical access Grande Ronde Hospital in La Grande provides much-needed care for a populace that can be cut off from larger facilities by a single snowstorm.
Val Jones, MD, recently spoke with hospital executives (some of whom were physicians) about the overall process of hiring and managing temporary physicians. “What I heard wasn’t pretty,” Jones wrote on the KevinMD website. “I thought I’d summarize their opinions in the form of a mock...
There are more than 93,000 physician assistants (PA) throughout the U.S., practicing medicine and increasing access to healthcare. Furthermore, PAs will play a critical role in meeting the demand for care among newly insured patients, according to Lawrence Herman, MPA, PA-C, DFAAPA, and...
About 16% of newly graduated medical specialists in Canada say they can't find work, according to a new Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada report suggesting that the economy, hospital resources, and personal preferences are driving the unemployment problem. Urologists, critical...
