A joint investigation by the Florida Department of Health’s Orlando Unlicensed Activity Unit and the state’s Office of the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) has led to the arrest of Wellington D. Liranzo for the alleged unlicensed practice of medicine, a third-degree...
The Joint Commission earlier this month announced that the 2015 Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals will include a new “Patient Safety Systems” chapter. The chapter will include standards from other sections of the CAMH, but will not provide new standards. The Patient...
Medical staffs across the country are discovering their governance documents are inadequate for today’s care environment. These trusted documents may provide murky guidance, be noncompliant with accreditation standards, or create liability for the hospital. Sound familiar? Tune in Wednesday,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 43
Mark your calendars for March 12-13, 2015 for the return of the Credentialing Resource Center Symposium at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. Join us as we bring MSPs and medical staff leaders together to discover innovative approaches to top medical staff challenges.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 43
HCPro is constantly striving to deliver the tools you need to make your job easier and more efficient. We cannot do this without hearing from you on a regular basis about how we are doing with the products we provide in the credentialing/medical staff market. Please take a few minutes...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 43
Authorities have arrested a man, Wellington Liranzo, on charges of Medicaid provider fraud and practicing medicine without a license at the Prime Care Family Health Center in Orlando.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 43
An overwhelming majority of patients believe physician assistants (PA) improve quality of healthcare, according to a study conducted by Harris Poll for the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA).
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 43
After two nurses at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas were infected with Ebola while treating a patient with the virus, the CDC released stricter infection control guidelines for healthcare workers focused on personal protective equipment (PPE).
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 43
The Figure 1 app, which has been called “Instagram for doctors,” might help physicians make difficult diagnoses more rapidly by seeing what their colleagues have encountered. It might also provide a repository of visual information...
