When asked how they began their career in medical staff services, many MSPs have stated that the job “just fell into their lap.” Many MSPs and credentialing professionals, especially those who have been in the profession for a long time, didn’t have a lot of formal education or training that...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 35, Issue 3
Ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) is nearly two decades into its life as an accreditation expectation, yet many organizations still treat it like a recurring paperwork cycle instead of a clinical-risk early warning system.
Your organization’s medical staff bylaws and/or credentialing policies and procedures set the actual criteria for credentials committee membership. Although it’s good to enumerate some basic requirements for membership, it’s also worthwhile to note that more effective credentials committee...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 35, Issue 2
Hospitals are under increasing scrutiny to keep patients safe from suicide, self-harm, and violent behavior—and CMS has just made its expectations for patient safety even clearer.
The Joint Commission’s (TJC) Accreditation 360 initiative rolled out in mid-2025, restructuring how standards are written, organized, referenced, and ultimately surveyed. The initiative shifts significant detail into the newly expanded Survey Process Guide (SPG) documents and creates an entirely...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 35, Issue 2
For Brian Clark, BSN, MSNA, CRNA, credentialing became real the moment it stopped him from working. Clark entered his first credentialing experience confident in his clinical readiness and prepared to practice. What he did not anticipate was how quickly an administrative timing issue could...
There are many things that organizations must determine when it comes to using telemedicine providers. Once these determinations have been made, medical staffs must turn to their bylaws to see what new language must be incorporated into the medical staff bylaws. Although these decisions are made...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 35, Issue 2
The Court of Appeals of the Eastern District of Missouri (the Court) both reversed and affirmed a circuit court’s decision regarding protected health information, sought by the attorney general of Missouri, of a transgender care center and its patients.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 35, Issue 2
At her first medical staff services conference, Sara Cameron heard a story that many medical staff professionals eventually encounter. “They started talking about this gentleman, Michael Swango, a serial killer physician,” she recalls. “And I was like, ‘Oh, I know him.’ ”
