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.

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Check out (and contribute to) the latest conversations on topics ranging from credentialing a pathologist assistant to choosing the best medical staff member category. This new and improved version of Medical Staff Talk—CRC’s legacy email list serv—features direct, members-only access through the CRC site.

Check out some of the latest discussions:

• Provider on staff in a category of "community"
• Credentialing a pathologist assistant
• Makoplasty arthroplasty credentialing criteria
• Resignation of privileges

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In an insightful Q&A with Mathieu O. Gaulin, CPMSM, CPCS, senior director of professional medical staff services at Boston Children’s Hospital, we delve into the intricate relationship between credentialing processes and his overarching strategic goals.

Check with your accrediting organization and local or state boards of pharmacy to ensure that your hospitals understand the expectations for how often staff must demonstrate core competencies in sterile drug compounding. The U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) has revised its standard under USP “Pharmaceutical Compounding — Sterile Preparations,” effective November 1, 2023. Those revisions come with very specific requirements for training and competency.