Kristine Kirstein, MHA, helped reinvigorate the onboarding process at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida. She says the following four steps helped the organization streamline the practitioner onboarding process:
Established a biweekly
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Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 28, Issue 10
Sharing peer review information between healthcare organizations is essential to help medical staffs determine practitioners' competence and make informed privilege-granting decisions. However, medical staffs can find themselves facing legal challenges if the disclosure process is done
Medical staff policies that require practitioners to sign releases before they disclose information to a requesting hospital are designed to protect an institution against lawsuits. But in the case of disclosing a practitioner’s...
The Credentialing Resource Center (CRC) team is going to the NAMSS Conference! Stop by Booth 213 to peruse the latest and greatest HCPro medical staff and credentialing resources, earn an exclusive discount, and enter our numerous raffles! See you there!
According to the Federation of State Medical Board’s biennial census, there were nearly 1 million licensed physicians in the United States in 2018. Since 2010, the average age of U.S. physicians has increased from 50.7 years old to 51.5 years old. While this seems to reflect only a slight...
Unsurprisingly, integrating medical staffs across multiple hospitals in a system has numerous effects on the culture within each individual medical staff, although these effects tend to be overwhelmingly positive. When medical staffs are unified correctly, each staff can still maintain its local...
