Mounting pressure from multiple directions is exposing weaknesses that surveys have flagged for years, but now with higher stakes. What once resulted in corrective action plans is increasingly resulting in repeat citations, condition-level findings, or downstream legal exposure.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) quietly changed a policy last week, exempting certain foreign physicians from processing holds that have been jeopardizing their ability to practice medicine in the United States.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 35, Issue 4
Hospital surveyors are no longer satisfied with documentation that shows issues retrospectively. They want to see that organizations can identify safety risks as they emerge, respond within the...
For medical staff services leaders, board certification is supposed to be one of the more straightforward compliance checkpoints. But in practice, the timeline rarely lines up neatly.
