Get your docs to help with emergency management sessions
In 2009, disaster privileging will move from The Joint Commission’s medical staff chapter to the EM standards.
EM.02.02.13 allows hospitals to grant disaster privileges to volunteer licensed independent practitioners (generally speaking, physicians).
As a thought, if organizations have good physician participation in their local Medical Reserve Corps or Emergency System for Advance Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals, it might be very useful to see if one of those physicians would participate in the emergency management session during a Joint Commission (formerly JCAHO) survey.
I’ve found that having a doc in the room can make a very big difference with the tone of surveyor interrogatories.
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