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Tip of the week: Send only complete applications to department chairs or the credentials committee for review

Credentialing Resource Center Connection, May 22, 2008

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Administrative personnel sometimes feel compelled to send an application to department chairs or to the credentials committee even though the application is incomplete. In today’s highly scrutinized medical and legal environments, it is best to have hospital administration assume nearly all responsibilities for assembling the credentials file—in compliance with hospital and medical staff policies and procedures—before requesting that designated reviewers review the file. It is important for your organization’s policies and procedures to have a definition of what makes an application complete, as well as the method for declaring an application incomplete—and therefore not eligible to begin or continue processing.

This week’s tip is from Core Privileges for Physicians: A Practical Approach to Developing and Implementing Criteria-based Privileges, Fourth Edition, by Wendy R. Crimp, BSN, MBA, CPHQ; Sally J. Pelletier, CPMSM, CPCS; Vicki Searcy, CPMSM; and Mark Smith, MD.

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