On December 16, the EEOC added a section on how the COVID-19 vaccination interacts with the legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) to its publication titled “What You...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 29, Issue 4
As the novel coronavirus remains a threat across the globe, healthcare organizations should brush up on procedures for handling and sharing protected health information (PHI) during the outbreak of an infectious disease.
Although the peer review coordinator is involved throughout the case review process, the coordinator has the primary responsibility at the beginning of case review and through the following four steps: case identification, case screening, review preparation, and physician reviewer assignment. It...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 28, Issue 7
A study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) made headlines late last year when it proclaimed that overlapping surgeries didn’t increase the risk of postop complications. The...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 10
Teamwork. Partnership. Alliance. Relationship. Cooperation. These are a few of the words listed in the thesaurus as synonyms for “collaboration.” I would like to add a few more ideas to that list: trust building, idea sharing, a path to improvement, synergy, and success.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 8
As medical staff professionals, we never seem to run out of challenges—or, as the optimists among us may call them, “opportunities.” Some of these issues are simple, and others are less so. Our work is not always predictable. We deal with a variety of people and needs, sometimes under strange...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 3
What’s in your compliance code? Though not technically mandatory, best practices and, in some cases, plans of correction, call for hospitals to create a compliance program with a plan or code applicable to its operation.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 3
The benefits of a criteria-based core privileging system need to be emphasized and demonstrated from the start. It is absolutely essential to be able to quantify the benefits that your organization would gain by transitioning from the current privileging system to a criteria-based core...
