Continuous readiness is your best preparation for an accreditation survey—but how do you prepare? By knowing your processes and being able to talk about them with the surveyors. It is also helpful to know the accreditors’ standards that apply to medical staff and credentialing. As the MSP, you...
The revised Conditions of Participation (CoP) allow certain nonphysician practitioners, when determined to be eligible for appointment by the governing body, to have privileges like other medical staff members. These nonphysician practitioners may be advanced practice registered nurses...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 36, Issue 16
The world of board certification is complicated by the fact that many physicians subspecialize and many specialty societies offer subspecialty boards or “certificates of added qualifications.” It is often a challenge for these physicians to maintain board certification in their original board...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 36, Issue 16
Being rude can affect medical performance and patient care, according to a study conducted by Tel Aviv University. Twenty-four Neonatal Intensive Care Unit teams from hospitals around Israel participated in a simulation exercise involving a premature infant suffering from necrotizing...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 36, Issue 16
A study in Academic Medicine found that students in an accelerated baccalaureate-MD program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine had similar academic performance outcomes as their peers not in the accelerated program.
Students in the accelerated program attend...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 36, Issue 16
The University of Utah Health Care is crediting a program that provides the cost of doing business for helping it to reduce its expenses over the past few year. While other academic hospitals in the area have seen costs increase an average of 2.9%, the University of Utah has had its costs...
