Increasingly, mergers and acquisitions are making strange bedfellows of acute, ambulatory, and postacute care facilities. As these newly aligned entities share practitioners and best practices, formalized credentialing is catching on across the care continuum.
In many nontraditional...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 7
As physician shortages grow, the number of advanced practice professionals (APP) applying for hospital and ambulatory privileges is rising rapidly. Despite this evolution, regulations and internal standards governing APPs’ work remain variable. Some states grant advanced practice registered...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 7
Finding that documents gathered, used, and generated during a hospital’s root cause analysis (RCA) process were privileged from disclosure, the Appellate Court of Illinois for the First District (the “Court”) reversed a Circuit Court of Cook County’s decision ordering the hospital to produce the...
