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Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 51
The Joint Commission released a draft of standard MS.01.01.01 (formerly MS.1.20) and its 36 EPs on its Web site for field review last week. The field review will be open until January 28, 2010. This review gives...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 51
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address current issues in peer review, bylaws and governance, and...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 50
The healthcare reform bill passed by the U.S. House and a bill under consideration in the Senate will stifle growth for physician-owned hospitals, according to a recent Physician Hospitals of America...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 50
Below is some sample bylaws language that explains the composition of the credentials committee:
Membership of the medical staff credentials committee shall consist of at least five members of the active medical staff who are experienced leaders. The president of the medical staff will...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 50
So why should the medical staff care about helping management achieve its financial goals? After all, isn’t the role of the medical staff to practice medicine and for management to count the beans and manage the books?