At Parkland Health & Hospital System in Dallas, Texas, Maggie Palmer, MSA, CPCS, CPMSM, vice president of professional medical affairs, medical staff professional services, and regulatory affairs, faces a challenge that’s common among credentialing leaders: how to fairly and...
Medical Staff Professionals Week is all about celebrating the work done to improve and ensure patient safety and high-quality of care. Whether you are credentialing and privileging practitioners, ensuring compliance and regulatory standards,...
The Joint Commission’s (TJC) 2026 revisions to the Emergency Management (EM) chapter mark a reshuffling of element numbers and represent a strategic reframe of how hospitals approach readiness, risk, and survey alignment.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 34, Issue 10
Most of the bylaws we all operate under are essentially decades old so you're not alone in that regard. However, it is important to review your bylaws annually to make sure they are up to date and still applicable. If a "wholesale review" has not been done in the past five years or more, now is...
Hospital workplace violence prevention often comes with good intentions, but incomplete execution. Many hospitals today have crisis response plans on file and security teams on standby. But ask Josh Sullivan, chief operating officer of A.L.I.V.E. Active Shooter Survival Training...
