In commemoration of Medical Staff Services Awareness Week earlier this month and Thanksgiving next week, Credentialing Resource Center would like to take a moment to say thank you for all you do to keep patients safe and things running smoothly at your organizations. In honor of this special month, we are offering a special discount on medical staff and credentialing related books. Use MSPW2022 at checkout to receive 20% off. Click here to see our full menu of books. 

According to CMS, privileges are not to be granted for tasks/procedures/activities that are not conducted within the hospital—regardless of the practitioner’s ability to perform.  Therefore, when developing your core privileging system, list only those services and procedures that your hospital currently provides; e.g., an activity/task/procedure that the hospital can support and is conducted within the hospital.

Hospitals made strides in patient safety in the past decade, according to information collected from the Leapfrog Group. The nonprofit watch dog estimates that about 16,000 lives were saved over the last 10 years due to these improvements.

Medical staff policies are intended to strengthen a hospital or health system by describing preferred practices, setting practitioner and staff expectations, promoting standardization, and providing guidance through the maze of healthcare regulations, accreditation standards, and third-party payer requirements, said Todd Sagin, MD, JD, in his book Medical Staff Governing Documents: Bylaws, Policies, & Procedures.

Communication is generally acknowledged as a two-way flow of information between a sender and a receiver. In theory, the sender generates a message that is forwarded to the receiver, who captures the message and then formulates a response that is returned to the sender.