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JCAHO Credentialing and Privileging Expert Panel
The AAPA has been invited to participate on one JCAHO expert panel and two JCAHO discussion groups.
The Credentialing and Privileging Expert Panel has been meeting via teleconference and face-to-face meetings since May 2003. Some of the topics that have been discussed in these meetings are:
- Types or categories of practitioners to be credentialed and privileged
- Methods of evaluating competency of privileged practitioners
- Practitioner profiling
- The value of peer review
Tricia Marriott, PA-C, has been an active participant in all the expert panel meetings, representing PAs and the AAPA, ensuring that the needs and concerns of the profession are not overlooked.
In April 2005, the AAPA was asked to take part in a discussion group that explored the relationship between individuals performing surgery/procedures and the individual administering sedation/anesthesia. Larry Herman, RPA-C, represented the AAPA in these discussions. Larry was very instrumental in educating JCAHO staff and others in the discussion group about the role PAs assume in the delivery of sedation/anesthesia and the performance of procedures. Draft standards to be added to the JCAHO Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals (CAMH) are being written that reflect the information gathered in these discussion groups.
The AAPA was invited to participate in an August 2005 discussion group looking at the relationship between medication management and pharmacy review requirements and how these requirements impact patient care and safety in the emergency department setting. This discussion group was assembled to answer questions posed by JCAHO standards interpretation personnel about how medications are managed in EDs when no pharmacist is available for review and what EDs around the country are doing to ensure that proper medications and dosages are being administered.
Last Revised: 8/23/05
