Credentialing Resource Center Connection

This week’s free form was submitted by reader Christine Lollar, administrative project manager of quality and risk management at Clinica Sierra Vista. Christine’s form is a credentialing checklist designed to accommodate Joint Commission and NCQA standards.

This is a basic question that’s worth revisiting from time to time, especially when MSPs update medical staff documents.

Disaster privileges refer to privileges granted to qualified medical volunteers to provide patient care when a major event creates a surge of patients and/or shortage of practitioners. Disaster privileges are temporary, but they allow privileged practitioners to care for patients for as long as needed during the course of the event.

What helpful reminders or policies and procedures do you include in your medical staff services department newsletter or website? Does your website also include a secure portal for practitioners to submit information to you? Does it include fun features like plans for National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week or Doctors’ Day?

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