In a recent case, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin confronted physician employment disputes, ultimately concluding that concerns about patient safety—not disability or retaliation—drove the employer’s decisions.
A directive ordered state agencies and public institutions of higher education to immediately halt new H-1B visa sponsorships without written permission from the Texas Workforce Commission.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 35, Issue 3
Succession planning has long been a looming concern in medical staff services, but the urgency is getting harder to ignore. Leaders are aging out. Career moves can be sudden. And the next generation of staff and leaders often approach work, technology, and communication in fundamentally...
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.
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...
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...
