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Florida mirrors national trend of hospitals hiring more physicians

Credentialing Resource Center Connection, October 18, 2007

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Older physicians were more likely to go into private practice after completing their education, but now the tide has turned as many newer graduates are seeking careers as hospital employees, according to an October 15 Orlando Sentinel article.
        The trend is too new to pass judgment on whether this will mean an increased work load for MSPs. On the one hand, many hospitalists are credentialed and privileged through the medical staff office. However, most allied health professionals employed by hospitals are now credentialed by the organization's human resources department, in accordance with Joint Commission (formally JCAHO) standards.
        Regardless of which office is responsible for credentialing this group, more hospitals are adding physicians to their staff. "More than nine out of every 10 surveyed hospitals in Florida plan to employ more physicians in the next five years," according to the article.
        David Moorhead, MD, the chief medical officer at Florida Hospital in Orlando, was quoted in the article as saying that the growing number of staff physicians needs to be tempered with an organization's use of outside practitioners. "The fabric of Florida Hospital and Orlando Regional [hospital] would cease without the services of private physicians," he said. "The trick [for hospitals] is to serve both constituencies."

To read more about the changing hospital-physician relationship, click here.

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