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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
