Ask the expert: What’s the difference between disaster privileges and emergency privileges?
Credentialing Resource Center Connection, July 1, 2010
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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.
By contrast, Joint Commission standard MS.06.01.13 states that in an emergency, any medical staff member with clinical privileges is permitted to provide any type of patient care, treatment, and services necessary as a life-saving measure or to prevent serious harm—regardless of his or her medical status or clinical privileges—as long as the care, treatment, and services provided are within the scope of the individuals license. For example, if a major storm isolated a small hospital and a patient suddenly needed a specialized surgical procedure or would die, the hospital could grant emergency privileges to a general surgeon, even if he or she is not usually privileged to perform that particular procedure.
This week’s Q & A is from Ready, Set, Credential, Second Edition, by Nancy Lian, CPMSM, CPCS.
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