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Featured Content | CRC recognizes Karen Reed-Coffman | As part of our new initiative to highlight the efforts of MSPs everywhere, the Credentialing Resource Center Team is recognizing stellar MSPs in the community by featuring them in Credentialing Resource Center Digest. In our first feature, we would like to recognize Karen Reed-Coffman, MBA, CPCS, CPMSM. Karen is the director of medical staff services at Stormont Vail Health in Kansas. Click here to read more about Karen and to learn how you can recommend a fellow MSP to the CRC team for recognition. |
Use guidelines to help you develop criteria for new privileges | Due to changing healthcare technologies, increasing specialization, and the growth of individual healthcare institutions, organizations must routinely evaluate new procedures to establish criteria for privileging practitioners in that area. It is often difficult to determine whether a privilege belongs in the basic core or whether the criteria for a particular privilege should include additional education, training, or recent experience. |
Physician advocate: Coronavirus pandemic shows need to ease regulatory burdens | The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is highlighting the need to reduce regulatory burdens in healthcare, the president of a physician organization says. Healthcare is one of the most highly regulated sectors in the U.S. economy. Regulatory compliance costs hospitals $1,200 for every patient admitted, according to the American Hospital Association. |
Quick tips for presenting | When we present information to a committee, we are attempting to transmit the information as well as receive a response in return. A lack of response is often a result of poor communication. A successful presentation will reflect clear objectives. Be sure to choose appropriate points of emphasis in your presentation and to include the necessary level of detail. |
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CRC Member Exclusive | The new face of telemedicine: How COVID-19 is changing the practice | Between social distancing, event cancellations, and stay-at-home orders, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has rendered our society’s day-to-day nearly unrecognizable. We order takeout in lieu of going out to a sit-down restaurant, we don masks and rubber gloves to do our weekly grocery shopping, and we do our best to avoid areas we once thought were safest: hospitals and doctors’ offices. In an effort to ensure continued access to important medical care, many practitioners and organizations have taken advantage of telemedicine, opting to keep seeing patients but from a safe distance. |
Set the credentials committee up for success | The credentials committee is perhaps one of the hardest working committees. Most physicians who agree to participate in a credentials committee do so without truly understanding the importance of the role and its responsibilities, and usually without having much training or experience. |
Sample structured interview form | When interviewing new applicants, it is often useful to use a structured interview form. This form should be modified to reflect the issues that are important to your hospital. |
Sample summary form of applicant’s adverse information | Although it is important for the committee to review the entire credentials file, having a summary form with key elements can call attention to issues that require additional discussion. Suppose an applicant has had hospital privileges suspended, but he or she fails to note this fact on the medical staff application. A mere review of the application will not identify this issue—the reviewer would have to see the actual letter from the hospital that submitted the information. |
Sample credentials committee annual report | It is sometimes difficult to tell how much work a committee is doing until it summarizes its accomplishments. In many hospitals, the functions of the credentials committee go far beyond the review of new appointees to the medical staff. They include reappointments, review of new requests for privileges for current medical staff members, evaluation of changes in staff status, provisional period evaluation, proctoring, and monitoring. Figure 3 shows an example of a report that can be used to document the extensive work of this committee. |
Physician competency report | When sending an applicant's reappointment file to the credentials committee, it is useful to use a form that profiles other elements required to be evaluated at reappointment (as opposed to just those required at initial appointment). This gives reviewers a snapshot of the overall clinical activity of the medical staff appointee. |
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