The standards in The Joint Commission’s Medical Staff chapter focus mainly on governance and organization of the medical staff, credentialing and privileging licensed independent practitioners, and overseeing the clinical activities of those practitioners.
The Credentialing Resource Center team is currently seeking experts to review the 2022 MSP Salary Survey Report. We’re looking for MSPs physician leaders, healthcare practitioners, quality professionals, and others with relevant experience who are willing to comment on the findings of...
Have you ever felt like some problems in medical staff leadership were simply unsolvable? Many hospitals constantly struggle to find answers to the following questions.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) lawsuit involving Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH), the teaching hospital of the Yale School of Medicine, and aging physicians remains an ongoing legal matter. The EEOC charged in the February 2020 lawsuit that the hospital violated federal...
The past year has brought a lot of changes for medical assistants. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, they have expanded their duties to include things such as nasopharyngeal swabbing, COVID-19 vaccinations, and telehealth functions. They also have shifted to different healthcare settings. Two...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 30, Issue 11
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (the "Court") vacated a pair of lower court rulings, finding that documents in a physician's credentialing file and from the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) were protected from disclosure in a lawsuit claiming corporate negligence against a hospital....
