Featuring a handful of inpatient beds and a narrow selection of community-tailored services, microhospitals are seeking to revolutionize care delivery in cities across the country.
These pint-sized purveyors of targeted interventions have a two-fold appeal: they present healthcare...
A challenge that commonly arises in addressing crossover privileges occurs when one specialty recommends different criteria for the same privilege requested by another specialty. Although it might be simpler to make the criteria the same regardless of the specialty, this does not take into...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 9
The updated National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) Guidebook was published in April 2015. The revised edition expanded parameters for reporting medical staff activities and most notably required MSPs to reexamine guidelines regarding investigations and reporting obligations.
Saint Elsewhere Hospital is about to sign a five-year contract with Teleradiology of America (TRA). TRA is a large, international company serving hundreds of hospitals with a cadre of several hundred radiologists. According to the contract, TRA will begin interpreting radiology exams from 10:00...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 8
For healthcare organizations, making sense of all the credentialing standards of major accrediting bodies—including CMS, DNV GL, the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP), The Joint Commission, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance—is easier said than done. Careful...
