Review Emergency Medical Treatment & Active Labor Act (EMTALA) requirements with your emergency departments, especially as the season for flu, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has the potential to flood hospital beds again.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 33, Issue 1
Check with your accrediting organization and local or state boards of pharmacy to ensure that your hospitals understand the expectations for how often staff must demonstrate core competencies in sterile drug compounding. The U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) has revised its standard under USP <797...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 33, Issue 1
Happy one-year anniversary of The Joint Commission’s move to update its time frame for evaluating licensed practitioners’ ability to provide care, treatment, and services from two years to three years. Although healthcare facilities do not have to make the change, many are. And it’s been a year...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 32, Issue 12
Granting of a state medical license is seen by many as a government's endorsement of a practitioner’s competence. However, in most states, the requirements for licensure are fairly minimal and largely consist of evidence the practitioner actually went to medical school and engaged in at least...
