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.
Healthcare organizations facing staffing shortages may resort to granting temporary privileges and using locum tenens physicians. However, without full credentials verification of those physicians, credentialing and privileging professionals may clinically...
The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, in an unpublished opinion, granted a hospital and related defendants' motion for summary judgment. The Court dismissed a physician's claims of breach of contract, defamation, and conspiracy to violate her civil rights...