As provider status looms on Capitol Hill, there are a number of steps health care institutions can take to prepare for the possible recognition of pharmacists as providers among health care teams.
Regardless of provider status, one step many institutions are pursuing (or have already pursued) is credentialing and privileging of their pharmacists. To assist with this process, ASHP has recently developed a resource center dedicated specifically to credentialing and privileging: http://www.ashp.org/menu/PracticePolicy/ResourceCenters/Credentialing-and-Privileging-Resource-Center.
How has your hospital or health system addressed credentialing and privileging of pharmacists? Many of us would greatly benefit from dialogue about the successes and failures of others.
Posted on behalf of the SAG on Clinical Leadership, Section of Clinical Specialists and Scientists