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National credentialing and privileging expert Sally J. Pelletier, CPCS, CPMSM, delivers useful and timely information in her weekly " Credentialing Resource Center Connection" column.

February 4, 2010 ( Volume 12, Issue 5)

Trial date set for nurse who reported physician to Texas Medical Board
In this week’s column, Emily Berry, associate editor, revisits the whistleblower case against two West Texas nurses before the start of Monday’s trial.

Doctor who covered up wrong-site surgery is back on the job
The New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners found Santusht Perera, MD guilty of wrong-site surgery at Meadowlands Hospital in Secaucus, NJ, and of altering medical records and lying to the patient to cover it up. The board fined him more than $80,000, suspended his license for six months, and placed him on probation from Dec. 7, 2008 to June 6, 2010. Now, Hoboken University Medical Center (HUMC) has granted him privileges to practice, according to a January 31 article in The Jersey Journal.

Assessing the Competency of Low-Volume Practitioners:

The Joint Commission requires that hospitals verify physician competence using performance data. Yet organizations often have little or no data related to the competency of low- and no-volume physicians. Medical staff leaders are therefore challenged to develop a strategy that guides the hospital's relationship with low- and no-volume providers, and medical staff services departments are challenged to establish systems to verify physician competence. This fully updated book and CD-ROM set offers the necessary tools and strategies for medical staff leaders and professionals to manage the increasing number of low- and no-volume providers and comply with Joint Commission standards.

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