More than two out of every five public healthcare workers would not show up for work during a flu pandemic, according to a survey conducted by researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. The researchers reported...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 16
The Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) is accepting comments on revisions to the Leadership chapter through May 4, 2006, the commission announced. The proposed revisions to the Leadership chapter encompass new leadership accountability standards; a new...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 15
Patients receiving medical care value interpersonal skills and a human touch when evaluating their physicians, rather than assessing measures of technical skill, according to a study published in the March issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 14
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) released for public comment draft standards for its 2007 accreditation and certification programs. The comment period ends April 7. The NCQA announced it will add "Quality Plus" content areas to its 2007 accreditation requirements, in response...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 6, Issue 29
The number of Americans having weight-loss surgery more than quadrupled between 1998 and 2002 from 13,386 to 71,733, according to a study published in the July 12 issue of Health Affairs.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 6, Issue 26
On June 21, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it will begin to implement the revised classification criteria used to determine inpatient hospital rehabilitation payment it adopted in a May 7, 2004 ruling. In January 2005, the rule was suspended by CMS after...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 6, Issue 24
According to a June 2005 inspection report from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG), 20% of the consecutive inpatient stay sequences it studied were associated with poor-quality care and/or unnecessary fragmentation of care.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 6, Issue 24
According to a June 2005 inspection report from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG), 20% of the consecutive inpatient stay sequences it studied were associated with poor-quality care and/or unnecessary fragmentation of care.
