Hospitals are improving the quality of care in heart attack, pneumonia, surgery, and children’s asthma patients, according to a new report, Improving America’s Hospitals: The Joint Commission’s Report on Quality and Safety 2010.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 38
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and governance, credentialing and privileging, physician leadership,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 38
The first step in choosing an appropriate overall physician-to-population ratio for a community is to use publicly available data to obtain or estimate current physician-to-population ratios in as many comparable medical markets as possible.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 38
If your medical staff is struggling with the decision whether to use its own legal counsel or the hospital’s legal counsel, arrange for a discussion between your medical staff leaders and their counterparts at area hospitals.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 37
How should an organization proceed in developing or revisiting a policy covering clinical assistants and advanced practice professionals? To simplify matters, if a policy doesn’t currently exist, the best place to begin is to evaluate the current scope of practitioners allowed to practice within...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 37
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and governance, credentialing and privileging, physician leadership,...
