"Privileging APPs: Issues and Solutions" is now available to Platinum Plus members of the Credentialing Resource Center (CRC)! Click here to access this new release directly through the CRC...
Essentially, assessing competence in the ambulatory setting does not differ from the processes used in the acute care setting. The same requirements and expectations are applied to the ambulatory setting as well. It does not matter what terms the medical staff and organization use to describe...
Reporting to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) has nothing to do with a failure to meet some standard in an employment agreement, provided that there has been no similar action...
Compare and contrast The Joint Commission and Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care stances on competence assessment for initial appointment/initial clinical privileges.
Ambulatory surgery centers have increased in number dramatically over the past two decades. Many are physician owned, some are jointly developed and owned by hospitals and physicians, and some are opened by hospitals as either on-license facilities or off-license facilities. Currently, hospitals...