Each individual practitioner who either applies for or maintains medical staff membership and/ or privileges has the burden of providing evidence that demonstrates that he or she meets the hospital’s established criteria for membership and/or privileges. This policy applies at the time of...
When a performance issue surfaces during a review process, maintaining strict confidentiality becomes crucial for both the practitioner and the...Read More »
Per most states’ hospital licensure requirements, medical staff membership and clinical privileges are granted through processes outlined by the...Read More »
Through University Hospital's medical staff services and credentialing career ladder, an entry-level hire begins as either a credentialing assistant or credentialing quality control specialist and can work his or her way up the departmental rungs as a medical staff services and credentialing...
An approach hospital may use to bring disruptive behavior policies to life is providing every new physician with the same messages from the chief of staff during orientation and the credentials interview. Download this excerpt from a disruptive behavior poilcy from Glendale Adventist Medical...
Medical staff credentialing and peer review requires a hospital to collect data on practitioners that is significant and sensitive. It is important that the hospital use such information only for the purposes for which it was collected. A hospital should take all reasonable measures to protect...
As hospitals diversify their medical staffs and contend with mounting regulatory efforts to ally payment and performance, interdisciplinary...Read More »
Join us for a peer review virtual workshop on January 16th and get your current peer review challenges solved! During this 2.5-hour workshop, peer...Read More »
Even when your facility has a policy for assessing and adding innovations, there is still a temptation to react to each individual practitioner’s application, rather than to consult the policy. Every request, it seems, comes with its own “special circumstances.” However, such a haphazard...
