The relationship of hospital size, medical staff services department size, and number of credentialed practitioners isn’t a sharp line. MSPs’ roles are fluid.

Well-formed job descriptions foster consistency that counterbalances these uncertainties. MSPs can reference the descriptions to understand their responsibilities, budget worktime, and address requests from practitioners that fall outside their purview. Managers can use the information to establish expectations, create time-management logs, and determine appropriate staffing levels.

Published 7/26/17

Increasingly, mergers and acquisitions are making strange bedfellows of acute, ambulatory, and postacute care facilities. As these newly aligned entities share practitioners and best practices, formalized credentialing is catching on across the care continuum.

In many nontraditional environments, the rise of credentialing is outstripping the development of regulatory and accreditation standards, leaving organizations with scant guidance on how to foster consistency across their spectrum of services and align their vetting practices with setting-specific needs. The long-term care industry is a prime example of this incongruity. 

Published 7/26/17

In long-term care, as in acute care, industry best practices (and, where applicable, accreditation standards) dictate that a credentialing process occur for all practitioners who deliver a medical level of care. This resource provides a rundown of items a nursing home might collect or verify during the credentialing process.

Published 7/24/17

The transition from medical school to residency is an aspect of physician training that has historically been overlooked in terms of research and modernization, according to Christopher J. Richards, MD, fellow in clinical instruction at Harvard Medical School in Boston. In fact, some have questioned the value of the fourth year of medical school and suggested outright eliminating it.

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