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.

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.

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.