According to 2017 statistics courtesy of the Association of American Medical Colleges, women currently represent 50.7% of the 21,000 medical school enrollees. In fact, the number of women applying to medical school has risen by more than 9% since 2015, compared to the 2.3% decline in male...
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A common challenge for hospital leaders is engaging hospitalists in medical staff processes and functions, such as serving on committees, participating in quality improvement initiatives, developing privileging criteria, and so forth. They want this group of practitioners to become more involved...
"[B]eing a good clinician doesn’t make someone qualified to be a leader. Advertising to people that you’re a good team player doesn’t make you a good team player."
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently revoked the tax-exempt status of a general acute care hospital. Although most of the hospital’s identifiers were redacted from the IRS’s adverse determination letter, it remains evident that the hospital entered into a lease agreement with a for-profit...
File review is another area where the CVO regularly collaborates with medical staff services personnel…This team reviews verified documents against applications to clarify any discrepancies to identify red flags to be carefully scrutinized by medical staff leaders when making privileging...
