“Healthcare historically has been a status quo model—improve to a certain point and stay there. The model of the future needs to be better.”...Read More »
The New Year’s dust (or confetti, as the case may be) has settled, routine is restored, and 2017 stretches ahead. For MSPs, medical staff leaders...Read More »
With today (Jan. 3) being the first day the new Republican-controlled Congress convenes, many senators and representatives are already looking...Read More »
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its medical regulations to permit full practice authority of three types of advanced practice...Read More »
Although CMS has now substantially limited the ability of a hospital to establish provider-based (PB) locations, they have been extremely popular...Read More »
An ACGME task force recently issued recommendations regarding changes to its Common Program Requirements regarding duty hours. A public comment...Read More »
Wayne Memorial Hospital began tailoring its peer review processes to accommodate OPPE and FPPE shortly after The Joint Commission announced the new requirement in 2007. Since then, the hospital has implemented comprehensive, practice area-specific professional practice quality report forms that...
Practitioner vetting and performance assessment are among the top trouble spots for today’s ambulatory healthcare facilities, according to a new...Read More »
