"NPs and PAs are here to stay. We need to bring them to the table; they have a pivotal role in providing healthcare here at the hospital," says Cindy Radcliffe, CPMSM, director of medical staff services at St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton, California. It was with this...
Patricia Furci, RN, MA, Esq., and Samuel J. Furci, MPA, tackle the issues medical staffs must be aware of regarding new reporting requirements. The updated National Practitioner Data Bank Guidebook was released on April 6, 2015. This is the first...
We continue our coverage this month of HCPro's MSP Salary Survey. HCPro conducts this survey annually, and this year we are sharing the results with the readers ofCredentialing & Peer Review Legal Insider.
As mentioned in the previous issue of the newsletter...
Overall, the responses to the 2015 MSP Salary Survey question "Which organization accredits your facility?" didn't change much from 2014. The Joint Commission accredits 76% of respondents' facilities, according to the 2015 results, and this continues the organization's incremental gains since...
Patricia Furci, RN, MA, Esq., and Samuel J. Furci, MPA take a look at issues that can cause practitioner impairment. This month, they focus on illness.
