Why does Fairview credential?
• Fairview, like other health care organizations, is legally responsible for knowing that individuals providing patient care are qualified and competent to do so. Over the past 30 years there have been multiple legal cases where hospitals were held accountable because they had not done adequate credentialing. • The Joint Commission, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA), Minnesota Department of Health and Human Services and other oversight organizations require that members of the medical and allied health staff be credentialed and privileged before working in the facility.
