Aligning or integrating quality and medical staff services functions can promote earlier detection of systemic shortcomings that affect a hospital’s reputation, accreditation standing, and bottom line. Despite these perks, organizational leadership may be reticent to change up existing...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 7
Finding that documents gathered, used, and generated during a hospital’s root cause analysis (RCA) process were privileged from disclosure, the Appellate Court of Illinois for the First District (the “Court”) reversed a Circuit Court of Cook County’s decision ordering the hospital to produce the...
In response to growing concerns with the nationwide rate of physician burnout, Stanford Medicine is the first U.S. academic medical center to appoint a chief wellness officer.
“Physicians have more control over our lifestyles than we believe. We may feel stuck, trapped in situations we don’t like, but in truth, most of us have the financial and emotional resources to change our lives into something better.”
To address the shortage of physicians in Missouri, a recently passed bill would ease the qualifications for medical school graduates to practice in the state. The bill, which is awaiting the governor’s signature, would allow medical school graduates to apply for assistant physician licenses.
