Hospitals have been required to privilege providers for more than 30 years , and other healthcare organizations , for example FQHCs , for over 20 years . Over the years , various methods for designing privileging systems have emerged including :
• Laundry lists
• Levels / categories
• Bundles
• Core privileges , with and without back-up procedure lists
• Primary privileges / clusters
• Combinations of the above
Today , many hospital medical staff organizations and other healthcare organizations continue to evolve their privileging systems to be more effective in defining the scope of services of the specialties they offer , the criteria that must be met for providers to be eligible to be granted clinical privileges , and the methods for ongoing monitoring of competency .
There is no question about it – designing a clinical privileging system that is effective is one of the most difficult tasks faced by hospital medical staff organizations and other healthcare organizations . Organizations wondering if it is time to reevaluate their clinical privileging systems – should review the following questions to consider :
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