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...
The Joint Commission (TJC) standards call for an objective, evidence-based process when deciding whether to grant or deny a privilege(s) or to...Read More »
This form is easy to follow and has the required questions. Consider pairing it with a policy and procedure to guide its use and including a section to denote confirmation of the hospital’s assessment/ability to perform a new procedure or treatment, the need for new equipment, etc.
The Association for Ambulatory Health Care’s (AAAHC) quality roadmap points to credentialing, privileging, and peer review as pervasive trouble...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...
Being at the forefront of a fast-moving trend can be a double-edged sword for microhospital operators, which get to differentiate themselves as...Read More »
Credentialing Resource Center's library of core privilege forms reflect industry best practices and expert research for a variety of physician,...Read More »
A rise in interest in osteopathic medicine has led to confusion about who is trained to practice this type of medicine. Physician leaders and MSPs...Read More »
