Physician Assistants (PA) were among the most-placed healthcare providers last year, based on hiring activity from over 200 hospitals and healthcare systems nationwide, according to an annual report from the Medicus Firm. The percentage of rural placements, female physicians, and DOs also...
Your organization’s medical staff may never be one big happy family, but it doesn’t have to be a dysfunctional family, either. Resolve turf battles with guidance from conflict resolution experts Jack Cox, MD, MMM, Rosemary Dragon, CPMSM, CPCS, and Christine Hearst, CPMSM. Our new guide...
Georgia hospitals could scale back their services under a plan unveiled Wednesday by Gov. Nathan Deal meant to help rural communities keep healthcare facilities open. Speaking to the Rural Caucus of the General Assembly earlier this week, Deal proposed a change in hospital licensure rules that...
It’s a good month for money and numbers—tax preparation, March Madness, and the 2014 MSP Salary Survey! HCPro’s Credentialing Resource Center team wants to gauge the financial prospects for MSPs in 2014. Please take a few moments to complete our updated salary survey. If you’ve done this...
About 90% of hospitals and other healthcare facilities reported using locum tenens physicians at some point in 2013, up from 74% in 2012, according to a survey conducted by Staff Care, a national temporary healthcare staffing firm. Filling in for a physician who left was the most cited reason...
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) have agreed to a single accreditation system for graduate medical education (GME) programs in the U.S. The single...
