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Executive Summary * Just as clinical knowledge learned in the classroom is best cemented through clinical experiences, leadership skills are best developed through mentoring in real live situations. * This service learning approach of nurse executive partnering with graduate nursing students enables the recruitment and development of future leaders. * Several principles form the foundation of healthy and productive partnerships including aspects of shared values, a focus on strengthening skills, and a commitment to open and constructive feedback. * Strategies to develop partnerships as well as expand and sustain them are explored in the article., As THE NURSING profession confronts a severe shortage of new nurses, nursing executives must meet the demands of fulfilling the mission and vision of their institution along with recruiting and [...]

Non-profit healthcare institutions across the US are increasingly forming partnerships, and some say that these alliances are a creative way to circumvent antitrust laws. The hospitals usually do not merge their assets, but form a new entity to supervise the operations of the partner hospitals. Industry experts cite several economic reasons for the increasing incidence of partnering, including market pressure and antitrust/merger regulations. However, many insurers, employers and state/federal authorities are skeptical of the arrangements and are increasingly scrutinizing them. Details of several hospital arrangements are provided.

NHS LIFT has focused on the needs of private contractors, at the expense of PCTs' concerns, a DoH review has found. As a result, many PCTs are unsure whether they [...]

Following its charge to reduce costly imaging overutilization, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced more stringent prohibitions against self-referral practices. Final Stark rules for the Hospital [...]

Ask The Experts - Solicitor Lynne Abbess advises on the legal side of appointing a non-clinician to the partnership. A GP telephoned us recently about the possibility of making his [...]

Byline: Mark Taylor Who actually controls a joint venture between a not-for-profit hospital system and a for-profit partner may become the deciding factor in determining whether such partnerships are tax-exempt [...]

Recently a GP contacted us as she was about to join a partnership, initially on a salaried (or fixed share) basis. She had been asked to sign the PCT forms [...]

The majority of states still require some form of physician collaboration or supervision for nurse practitioners. In many cases, physicians and NPs work for a large health care organization and [...]

In collaborative care, clinicians from two different disciplines may treat a patient at the same time. How do you bill this co-treatment? As a speech-language pathologist helping an older patient [...]

The U.S. Dept. of Justice did not approve the creation of Children's Healthcare, a physician network in New Jersey, because it would unfairly compete with managed-care plans in the state healthcare market and violate antitrust laws. The Dept. of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission's healthcare antitrust guidelines allow formation of physician networks that do not capture more than 20% to 30% of the healthcare market and the doctors share financial risks., Breaking a streak of decisions favorable to physicians, the U.S. Justice Department gave thumbs down to a proposed doctor network in New Jersey last week, ruling it could lead to [...]

Caution advised in relations with laboratory referral sources "I've talked about it with a lot of laboratory clients, and the reasoning almost always comes back, "The competition is doing it, [...]