Credentialing Resource Center Journal sat down with La Kisha Rosario, medical staff director at St. Mary’s General Hospital in Passaic, New Jersey, to find out how she has used technology to make a more efficient and effective medical staff services department...
According to Advisory Board's annual healthcare CEO survey, improving access to ambulatory care is the top area of interest for hospital executives for 2019. The survey polled 90 hospital executives across the country between Jaunary and March, asking them to rank their interest in 29 different...
Tucked away at the end of most medical staff bylaws is a section titled along the lines of “Review, Revision, Adoption, and Amendment.” While it may seem odd to start our discussion at the end, this section gets to the heart of your medical staff culture and how your bylaws and related documents...
Since the 20th century, the organized medical staff has been a basic requirement for all hospitals. In 2014, CMS revised its CoPs to address an evolving trend across multiple hospitals in a health system: the unification of medical staffs. However, this revision came after the National...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 28, Issue 6
In October 2018, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released an update to the National Practitioner Data Bank’s (NPDB) Guidebook. This marks the first update since HRSA made significant changes to the rules in 2015. There are significant clarifications and new...
The annual cost of physician burnout is conservatively estimated at $4.6 billion, research published this week shows. The study, published in Annals of Internal Medicine, is one of the first attempts to estimate the cost of physician burnout to health systems, hospitals, and physician practices...
