Profiles in Progress: Hospital Privileges
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ver the years podiatric medicine has made monumental progress in achieving hospital privileges. The number of hospitals allowing podiatrists to participate as members of the medical staff grew rapidly in the late 1980s and early 1990s, as demonstrated in the graphics representing American Hospital Association polls of hospital CEOs. More recently, most respondents to APMA’s 2008 Podiatric Practice Survey reported having staff privileges at one or
more hospitals (99 percent), compared to 95 percent in 2007. Most respondents had active privileges in 2008 (70 percent). The second most frequently held privileges were allied privileges (36.7 percent). Physicians with active staff privileges tended to have privileges at more hospitals than those with other types of privileges. Physicians with active privileges reported that the average number of hospitals where they had these privileges was two. n
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99% 96% 84% 93% 67% 50% 1984 1989 1991 2004 2006 2008
Source: American Hospital Association CEO Polls
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Percentage of Hospital CEOs Reporting Podiatric Physicians on Staff
Percentage of Podiatrists Reporting Some Type of Hospital Privileges
Source: APMA Podiatric Practice Survey
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