The Association for Ambulatory Health Care’s (AAAHC) quality roadmap points to credentialing, privileging, and peer review as pervasive trouble...Read More »
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 »
"It’s nearly impossible for a genuinely compassionate doctor not to leave small pieces of themselves behind along the way. But, to be honest, I...Read More »
When it comes to staying ahead of critical practitioner vetting deadlines, such as privilege expiration dates, automation is your best friend,...Read More »
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...
Credentialing and privileging lapses in the ambulatory arena have a familiar calling card: too few staff wearing too many hats. Compared to the...Read More »
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...
