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Credentialing refers to the process of evaluation and verification by hospitals on the qualifications of their respective providers of healthcare on the necessary education to provide proper health care to patients. Privileging on the other hand is the step taken after credentialing is done as a step to assess the competence of the practitioner within a specific area of care to the patients. They are both important in ensuring that proper, quality, and required health care practice standards are maintained while making sure that the patients are in the bets hands possible without compromise.
If a hospital learns that another facility has sanctioned one of its privileged physicians, the reaction should be adaptation and legal action. Adaptation will require the immediate privileging of another practitioner in order to fill the gap left by the former while reviewing the contractual basis. It is meant to ensure that there is no repeat of the same with a new practitioner in the hospital. Legal actions require the hospital to seek judicial inference on the sanctioning of one of their employees by the rival facility.
Under the ADA, the type of accommodations that hospitals can make includes the public covered under the federal programs with modifications of the facilities. The accommodations may have an adverse impact on the patient outcomes if they do not have standard hygiene standards, provisions of ADA principles and regulation services from the attendants. As the ultimate authority in credentialing/ privileging decisions, the hospital’s governing body has to satisfy its legal mandate through aligning of the provisions within the licensing boards, examinations requirements boards, policy acts within the permitted legal structures and follow-through on the signed measures.