New issue of Credentialing Resource Center Journal now available

The April issue of Credentialing Resource Center Journal is now available and can be accessed by Credentialing Resource Center (CRC) members online at CredentialingResourceCenter.com. In this issue, learn about credentialing and privileging during a disaster:

Reacting quickly and effectively is a major part of successfully ­navigating the chaos that follows a disaster, according to David ­Bernard, MD, senior vice president and chief medical officer for Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. During Hurricane Sandy, Bernard's hospital took on evacuated patients and physicians from NYU Langone Medical Center and began processing ­applications for privileges as quickly as possible.

The team at Beth Israel developed a safe yet fast-tracked credentialing process to grant temporary privileges to incoming physicians; temporary privileges were then valid for 120 days.

"We used the temporary privilege category and relied a lot on NYU's profiles in their credentialing system to avoid having to do the whole process from scratch, which takes weeks or months," says Bernard.

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