The medical staff exists to ensure the quality of care, which is dependent primarily on individuals granted privileges in the organization. The way the organized medical staff accomplishes this is through competency determination across the lifetime of a practitioner at the...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 2
CMS’ 2014 final rule clarified its position that categories of non-physician practitioners could be included on the medical staff; it also enabled medical staffs to privilege registered dietitians (RD) and other nutrition professionals to order therapeutic patient diets. However, these...
In last week’s edition of Medical Staff Leader Insider, I briefly discussed preventing violence in hospitals. Sadly, after the fatal shooting of a surgeon in Boston...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 2
This week’s edition of Medical Staff Leader Insider features a brief about a hospital forming its own police department. I feel like every few weeks I hear about another violent incident at a hospital. With this in mind, is forming a police...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 1
For those of you who have not already registered for the Credentialing Resource Center Symposium, I’d like to let you know the early bird discount has been extended to Friday, January 30. For more information about the symposium or to register,...
Editor's note:Militsa Ruiz, CPCS, vice president of software integration at CredLink and president/CEO of Cambridge Verification worked with a hospital in Costa Rica to set up credentialing and privileging standards that would meet Joint...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 1
During a recent webcast, "Medical Staff Governance Documents: The Increasing Importance of Contemporary Bylaws," Todd Sagin, MD, JD, offered guidance for differentiating among rules, regulations, policies, and bylaws. Following are questions and answers from this webcast.
The recent revelation that a physician in Maryland had been practicing for nearly two decades in the state despite being convicted of rape has brought renewed attention to the issue of whether state medical boards should require criminal background checks for physicians.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 50
In observance of the holidays, Medical Staff Leader Insider won’t be published for the next two weeks. The next edition will arrive in your inbox on January 8, 2015. Since this is the last edition of the year, let me know what you thought...
