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Board discusses clearer recredentialing standards as medical staff add cochlear and telecardiology privileges
Summary
The board reviewed proposed medical-staff privileging changes including adding cochlear-implant and osseointegrated-implant privileges and establishing telecardiology privileging. Directors pressed staff to replace vague 'sufficient volume' language with a departmental determination for reappointment.
Directors and medical staff leaders discussed changes to privileging language that would allow Tahoe Forest to offer cochlear implants and launch telecardiology services while clarifying recredentialing standards.
The medical staff executive committee presented a package of credentialing and policy changes that included: adding cochlear implants and osseointegrated implants to the ENT privileging card; a cardiology privileging change to permit telecardiology (remote reads of echocardiograms and EKGs); and routine updates such as wording changes from "annually" to "regularly." The committee said most edits were not substantive but essential to keep privileging current.
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