Author: Stephanie McCoy

Stephanie McCoy, BBA, CPCS
Director, Credentialing and Accreditation
November 10, 2016

$McCoy Photo headshot square 230px - Copy\ width=$ National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week, we proudly recognize our credentialing team at SpecialtyCare, and indeed in healthcare settings everywhere, for their contributions to quality patient care and safety.

Our medical staff professionals possess specific knowledge and proficiencies that enable them to maintain credentialing, re-credentialing, and privileging for our clinical staff. With approximately 1,500 physicians and clinicians representing multiple service lines in more than 1,200 hospitals and 44 states, our credentialing team has the added responsibility of ensuring that our people meet varied requirements across multiple facilities and geographic areas.

The credentialing team monitors compliance, on-boards new hires, assists with vendor account set up, prepares medical staff and allied health applications, and responds to hospital audit inquiries. The team works with our vendor accounts (Reptrax, Vendormate, Symplr/VCS, and Parallon) and FirstLab, our health screening referral service. This year, the team played a critical role in achieving recertification by The Joint Commission in HealthCare Staffing Services as well as accreditation in Surgical Ambulatory Healthcare. The Joint Commission has been a terrific ally in our quest to continually raise the bar and, after all of the hard work and stringent reviews, it was gratifying to have the auditor refer to us as a “superstar.”

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