Medical staffs across the country have found that establishing their own private treasury accounts funded by staff dues and application/reappointment fees has helped them maintain autonomy from hospital administration. This separation has become especially apparent when conflicts...
For the second time, the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California dismissed a surgeon's lawsuit alleging that a hospital, its medical staff, its parent company, and certain individuals racially discriminated against him by limiting or suspending his...
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Southern Division, denied a motion to compel the University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB) to produce documents created by its institutional review board (IRB) in regard to a clinical research trial performed on...
A conversion to core privileging is underway at MaineHealth, and the effort has spurred a standard application for privileges among the eight hospitals in the system. MSB recently spoke with Cheryl Schilke, RN, CPMSM, director of Synernet, MaineHealth's...
The AOA and ACGME have begun the process of creating a single accreditation system. The final result could be a simplified verification process, but a lot must happen before the system is fully implemented?and the target date for completion is June 2020.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 9
Autopsy is a core privilege for pathologists, but because few pathologists perform the procedure in hospitals, this doesn't usually present a credentialing concern, according to some medical services professionals and consultants. Nevertheless, it can raise policy questions for medical staffs,...
