Facilities collaborate to overcome credentialing and peer review hurdles
Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, November 1, 2008
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Credentialing and peer review often present big challenges for small hospitals. Tight funding, few medical staff physicians, few or no support staff members, and inadequate access to technology stress small organizations, particularly those in rural communities. Consider too that effective, nonbiased peer review can be impossible to achieve in a community with only a few practicing physicians.
To combat such challenges and provide high-quality service to the patients they serve, small facilities in many rural communities have found ways to partner with their state health department, a university medical school, or a tertiary care facility.
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