This week, CRC Daily covers credentialing. Medical science is advancing with startling speed, and with that evolution comes rapid change in both clinical technology and technique. Patients can benefit vastly from such advances, but only if the practitioner utilizing them is competent....
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 4
While hospital quality departments have historically overseen the peer review process, today’s medical staff services teams are increasingly taking up the reins. Typically, this realignment reflects an effort to keep the medical staff—who is ultimately responsible for peer review performance and...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 4
A University of Colorado-Denver student gained unauthorized access to Denver Health Medical Center by posing as a medical student and interacted with at least one patient. The hospital has suspended all student and learner badge access while it is re-verifies all student credentials.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 4
The Kentucky Court of Appeals (the “Court”) affirmed a circuit court’s judgment that peer review documents, produced by Saints Mary & Elizabeth Hospital (SMEH) in Louisville, were not admissible at trial in a negligence case brought by the estate of a former patient.
NPs and PAs' scope of practice is determined by education and experience, much like physicians. That scope is further defined by state law, hospital credentialing, and collaborating or supervising physician agreements. Where nurse practitioners (NP) are not permitted by state law to practice...
