This week’s Free Resource is from The Medical Staff Office Manual. The sample form is an algorithm you can use for privilege criteria development. As a medical staff team develops and updates criteria, areas beyond education, training, board status or certification (if applicable), experience, and evidence of current competence must be considered.

Featuring a handful of inpatient beds and a narrow selection of community-tailored services, microhospitals are seeking to revolution­ize care delivery in cities across the country.

These pint-sized purveyors of targeted interventions have a two-fold appeal: they present healthcare institutions with a low-risk vehicle for expanding or redefining their market presence and tout faster, more accessible care for patients in hubs where sluggish traffic, overcrowd­ing, and limited building options can put traditional hospital services out of comfortable reach.

But despite the burgeoning care model’s promise, its proliferation is outpacing the development of environment-specific regulations. Because microhospitals are currently regarded by CMS, accreditors, and many states as short-stay acute care hospitals, MSPs and medical staff leaders must determine how best to rescale credentialing and privileging processes originally developed for large, full-service facilities.

Because microhospitals are currently subject to regulations developed decades ago and with larger acute care institutions in mind, they can run into compliance obstacles that their traditional counterparts don’t often encounter or are better equipped to handle. Here’s a rundown of potential pitfalls and expert sidesteps.

Every day in the news, you can’t help but hear about the terrible impact of overuse and addiction to opioids. As our country desperately searches for solutions, one of the questions being asked is how much patient satisfaction survey questions on pain management have affected physician prescribing patterns.

Check out (and contribute to) the latest conversations on topics ranging from ED foot call to endovascular coiling.

Credentialing Resource Center is compiling and updating our directory of medical staff/credentialing contacts.

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It's your last chance to receive deserved recognition from industry experts! Apply today through our simple online process. The 2018 CRC Symposium Case Study Competition and the 2018 CRC Achievement Awards are two application-based contests that showcase excellence in the medical staff services and leadership fields. Winners, who will be selected by a panel of esteemed industry experts, will receive free admission to and recognition at the 2018 CRC Symposium, Feb. 5-6, in Las Vegas. Categories include:

• Medical Staff Professional of the Year
• Medical Staff Leader of the Year
• Excellence in Medical Staff Collaboration
• Case Study Competition