Last year, the 2013 MSP Salary Survey netted more respondents than previous editions, and some of the findings were guardedly optimistic. For example, more respondents reported receiving a raise; fewer indicated their organization was still in the throes of a hiring/wage freeze...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 5
My doctors had a health center; then they lost it; then they got it back. As a result, they are completely dedicated to that health center. This is different than hospitals where the medical staff has always had a hospital, or two, or three, to bounce back and forth between.
In what may ultimately become an influential decision, the California Supreme Court issued a ruling in February that changes the way physician whistleblowers bring claims against hospitals?and may have lasting consequences for peer review processes in the state, some say.
The Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP) is implementing new requirements for competence assessment, including OPPE and FPPE. Medical Staff Briefing spoke recently with Karen Y. Beem, MS, RN, Standards Interpretation Specialist at HFAP, in Chicago,...
Updates to the NPDB Guidebook are being met with some resistance from legal and regulatory organizations, particularly concerning the way in which the NPDB defines an investigation.
