More community practices are joining hospital systems because it makes economic sense for both parties. However, when hospitals acquire community practices and clinics, the medical staff services department (MSSD) faces credentialing and privileging questions. Will physicians in newly acquired...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 17
Of the 30 million children treated in emergency rooms (ER) every year, about 90% are in general community hospitals that often lack pediatric units. This means ERS often don’t have emergency equipment sized for children, such as breathing tubes, catheters, and needles.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 17
We’re looking for new members to join the editorial advisory board for our monthly newsletter Medical Staff Briefing. If you’re a physician, lawyer, MSP, or serve any other role with experience with medical staff leadership or medical staff services, please consider joining.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 17
HCPro is always looking for new product ideas to make your job easier so we're asking our readers for input on our upcoming book projects. Do you know of any medical staff and credentialing topics that need to be covered or one of our existing books that need to be updated?...
Q: With regard to the decision to opt in or out of a unified, integrated medical staff, our bylaws say that only active medical staff members have a vote. Does this mean we need a revision to allow other categories of medical staff to vote as well?
In addition to requiring competency information from practitioners, organizations should develop a policy and procedures specifying which data they will share, and how, and the healthcare entities with which the data will be shared. An important early step is to evaluate the state peer review...
A hospital may require an application to submit a written request or complete a pre-application, although many medical staffs have discontinued the use of pre-applications. Regardless of whether a practitioner must fill out a pre-application or a full application, if he or she is ineligible for...
