The New Year’s dust (or confetti, as the case may be) has settled, routine is restored, and 2017 stretches ahead. For MSPs, medical staff leaders, and quality personnel, there’s no better time to take stock of last year’s professional developments, applying lessons learned to current approaches...
“When administrators and board members can see the downstream, longer term effects of their decisions about resources, staffing, performance metrics, organizational priorities, and work policies, they can begin to appreciate what research in other industries has already shown: valuing employees...
An analysis of 803 acute care hospitals found that switching to a physician employment model had little influence on four primary composite quality metrics—risk-adjusted mortality rates, 30-day readmission rates, patient satisfaction scores for common medical conditions, and length of stay.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 12
Although MSPs consider quality care a driving focus, they don’t always devote the same energy to collaborating with colleagues in the quality department. This incongruity can be counterproductive. Poor alignment between quality and medical staff services personnel can undermine overlapping...
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its medical regulations to permit full practice authority of three types of advanced practice registered nurses (APRN): certified nurse-midwives, nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists. Certified registered nurse anesthetists were...
