Job Description

Coordinates medical staff credentialing functions to assure compliance with federal, state and regulatory agency licensing/regulatory standards. Coordinates Credentials Committee meeting agendas, minutes, and follow-up. Acts as liaison between administration, medical staff leadership, individual applicant and appointee.

• Establish implement and ensure that Medical Staff credentialing practices and procedures for physician and allied health practitioner that are in accordance with JCAHO, Title 22 and other regulatory agencies and overall hospital policies.
• Interpret and apply medical staff By-laws, Rules and Regulations; and departmental rules and regulations as they apply to appointments, reappointment, and credentialing functions of established committee. Initiate or assist in initiating proposed bylaw amendments as pertain to these activities.
• Develop, maintain, and revise delineation of clinical privileges and scope of practice forms.
• Responsible for verification of all applicants for medical staff appointments as well as those requests received from other institutions pertaining to staff members.
• Oversee, develop, and maintain credentials data base programs.
• Assume responsibility for the maintenance of all credential and confidential Peer Review files.
• Coordinate the Credential Committee and such other committees as assigned including staffing, scheduling, and preparing materials, minutes and notices prior to meetings, documenting proceeding, maintaining records, and follow-up or actions taken.
• Assist medical staff officers, department directors and other health care professionals in the development of mechanisms to assess physician performance within the context of reappointment and clinical appraisals.
• Serve as liaison between the medical staff, administration, and ancillary departments in matters pertaining to medical staff credentialing, appointment, reappointment and related Medical Staff activities.
• Assist Medical Staff Officers and hospital administration in projects as assigned..
• Assist the Director of Medical Education in the development of the Medical Staff Office goals and budget.
• Must possess strong verbal and written English communication skills

Qualifications:

• BAor High Schoolwithrelated experience

• 3+ years’ experience in healthcare administrative / office setting

• Knowledgeofmedicalandregulatoryagencyrequirementsandstandards preferred

• Medical Staff computer software experience preferred.

Work Shift

Workday Day (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type

Regular

Employee Entity

Jefferson Health Northeast

Primary Location Address

10800 Knights Road, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educa­tional and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.

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