Alex Zakharia, a Miami-Dade heart surgeon, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Detroit for allegedly exaggerating his qualifications about his experience doing open-heart surgery while giving a deposition for the plaintiff in a Michigan malpractice case.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 8, Issue 2
Many organizations will not provide information about clinical performance to other organizations that seek that information for credentialing and privileging.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 8, Issue 1
Kris Rockwell, manager of medical staff services at Children's Hospital in Omaha, NE, writes about having categories for membership and categories for privileges.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 51
The Joint Commission on Dec. 21 posted to its Web site a proposed standard for disruptive behavior. The Joint Commission seeks comments on the proposed standard, LD.3.15, which is open for field review until Jan. 24, 2007.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 50
Fast tracking of applications is a worthwhile goal, for seldom is there any benefit in having the process be delayed. A thorough, prompt, and fair interview process is essential, and requires a system in which the hospital and its medical staff fully acknowledge that the tasks of credentialing...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 50
A Libyan court sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian physician to death on Dec. 19, convicting them of deliberately infecting hundreds of children with HIV/AIDS, in a re-trial ordered after a court reached the same verdict in 2004. European and American human rights and physician...
