The Association for Ambulatory Health Care’s (AAAHC) quality roadmap points to credentialing, privileging, and peer review as pervasive trouble...Read More »
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Navigating appointment processes, with their patchwork of expiration dates and verification expectations, can be difficult for ambulatory facilities, which often lack the dedicated credentialing presence and big-ticket resources of their acute care counterparts. To stay ahead of critical...
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Many medical staffs invest a considerable amount of time thinking about or actually developing and trying to implement ambulatory privileges....Read More »
In the hospital setting, a completed checklist prefacing a credentials file can demonstrate to department chairs, the credentials committee, the medical executive committee, and the governing board that an application has been thoroughly vetted and properly prepared. Credentialing checklists can...