Review Emergency Medical Treatment & Active Labor Act (EMTALA) requirements with your emergency departments, especially as the season for flu, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has the potential to flood hospital beds again.
As physician shortages accelerate, healthcare institutions should expect to see a rise in the volume of requests for and from advanced practice professionals (APP). Today’s rapidly evolving healthcare industry demands that we extend our reach beyond the well-established APP groups— advanced...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 33, Issue 1
Check with your accrediting organization and local or state boards of pharmacy to ensure that your hospitals understand the expectations for how often staff must demonstrate core competencies in sterile drug compounding. The U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) has revised its standard under USP <797...
In an insightful Q&A with Mathieu O. Gaulin, CPMSM, CPCS, senior director of professional medical staff services at Boston Children’s Hospital, we delve into the intricate relationship between credentialing processes and his overarching strategic goals.
Due to changing healthcare technologies, increasing specialization, and the growth of individual healthcare institutions, organizations must routinely evaluate new procedures to establish criteria for privileging practitioners in that area. It is often difficult to determine whether a privilege...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 33, Issue 1
Happy one-year anniversary of The Joint Commission’s move to update its time frame for evaluating licensed practitioners’ ability to provide care, treatment, and services from two years to three years. Although healthcare facilities do not have to make the change, many are. And it’s been a year...
