“Truly great medicine is built on relationships. It is about people. And taking good care of people means taking the time to know and care for them as persons. Regardless the effect on the bottom line, sometimes we simply need to slow down.”
- Richard Gunderman,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 45
In 1992, President George Bush declared the first week of November as National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week. In honor of the week this year, the Credentialing Resource Center blog has been...
As MaineHealth and credentialing partner Synernet get standardized privilege sets ready to go, MSB spoke to Robert E. McArtor, MD, CMO of the eight-hospital system, about some of the keys to the success of this initiative. Among them are consensus, collaboration, and listening...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 11
A conversion to core privileging is underway at MaineHealth, and the effort has spurred a drive to standardize privilege forms among the eight hospitals in the system. Now, a little more than a year into the process, the integrated healthcare delivery network has drafts of forms for three...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 11
A difficult recruitment and retention environment—as well as patient, community, and hospital need—provide understandable pressure to quickly get certain practitioners and specialties credentialed and privileged. While CMS is silent regarding the use of temporary privileges or locum...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 11
A conversion to core privileging is underway at MaineHealth, and the effort has spurred a drive to standardize privilege forms among the eight hospitals in the system. Now, a little more than a year into the process, the integrated healthcare delivery network has drafts of forms for three...
