If you haven’t registered for the 2016 Credentialing Resource Center Symposium, today is the day to do it. Only today can you take advantage of our throwback to the early bird registrations...
Bylaws are the legal framework on which a hospital or health system functions. Your facility’s bylaws cover all aspects of its operations, but your office is focused primarily on the medical staff bylaws. This week’s free resource comes from ...
Credentialing and privileging professionals are tasked with ensuring all privileging requests—no matter how temporary—are thoroughly reviewed. Find out how granting temporary privileges and using locum tenens physicians without full credentials verification may clinically and legally endanger...
The Credentialing Resource Center Symposium event page is up and running. Click here to access the agenda, speakers’ biographies, travel information, and local attractions. If you’re already registered for the symposium, use your...
Practitioner impairment threatens all levels of operation. If left unchecked, age, health, or behavioral issues on the medical staff can diminish care quality, incite legal trouble, and jeopardize the safety of the entire hospital community. As public scrutiny grows, hospitals must ensure their...
Sally Pelletier, CPMSM, CPCS, is an advisory consultant and the chief credentialing officer for The Greeley Company, Inc., in Danvers, Massachusetts. She brings more than 20 years of credentialing and privileging experience to her work with medical staff leaders and MSPs across...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 7
After hackers used malware to infect Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center’s computer systems earlier this month, the Los Angeles hospital paid a $17,000 ransom to regain access. The malware prevented hospital staff from accessing their system by encrypting its files. Once the ransom was paid,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 7
An 18-year-old teenager in West Palm Beach, Florida, is accused on impersonating a physician and operating an unlicensed medical office. Malachi Love-Robinson was arrested after officials received a tip that he was practicing medicine without a license.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 7
A large percentage of leaders are not getting enough sleep, which could have a negative impact on behaviors associated with strong leadership, according to a recent Harvard Business Review article. Of those surveyed, 43% said they did not get enough sleep four nights a week.
