The boards of Kindred Healthcare and Gentiva Health Services unanimously approved a deal that would create one of the country’s largest operator of long-term acute care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, and home health and hospice services, with an expected annual...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 41
“My answer when people ask me how to motivate doctors: Give them the tools they need to make the changes that will benefit their patients. Collaborate with them on coming up with solutions to your institution’s ailments. Allow them to come up with solutions and have skin in the game,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 41
An effort to provide physicians a streamlined path to obtaining medical licensure in multiple states appears to be gaining traction, HealthLeaders Media reported earlier this week. The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) finalized the draft version of its proposed Interstate Medical...
One quarter of the hospitals around the country have been left out of some of the biggest shifts in U.S. healthcare initiated by the Affordable Care Act. The Department of Health and Human Services has not yet incorporated the 1,256 primarily rural, “critical access” hospitals into Medicare’...
Physician assistants (PA) make up 10% of the primary care workforce and 9% of clinicians in community health centers, and the number of PAs continues to grow, according to a report from the National Governors Association (NGA), a bipartisan organization that aims to provide a collective...
