The Joint Commission has revised its policy for inclusion of physician practices in hospital and critical access hospital accreditation surveys. Previously, Joint Commission policy required that a physician practice be included in the hospital’s survey if at least one of two criteria were...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 44
The old adage that grades aren’t everything appears to be true for hospitals as well as schools. Five of the 10 hospital “report cards” evaluated were given low marks in “HANYS’ Report On Report Cards,” published earlier this week by the Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) for use...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 44
Twelve Minnesota nurses who since 2010 are licensed to practice despite having either stolen narcotics on the job, fraudulently obtained prescriptions, or practiced while impaired by drugs or alcohol, a Star Tribune examination of more than 1,000 Minnesota Board of Nursing disciplinary...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 44
HCPro is working on a new book about OPPE and we’d like you to be a part of it. Our goal for the book is to feature case studies of organizations that have implemented an effective OPPE program or process and are excited about sharing their experience and forms with their peers.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 11
In the past decade, as improving patient safety became a major initiative, healthcare organizations began to look at how companies and agencies in other fields minimize failures and prevent errors. Many are now taking a closer look at high-reliability training as a way to...
A key element to the physician credentialing and privileging process is querying the NPDB, a step that has become standard practice whenever a credentialing committee is considering a new candidate or an existing physician is renewing privileges.
