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File: 970207_aadct_007.txtMEDICAL LESSONS LEARNED DESERT SHIELD/STORM CATEGORY: TRAINING ISSUE ITEM #: SUBJECT: CREDENTIALING OF PROVIDERS BACKGROUND: Providers must be credentialed at each medical facility where they are assigned to practice. At some facilities, providers were given provisional privileges, and at other facilities they could not practice until the full credentialing process was completed. Also, physicians and nurses were treated differently. DISCUSSION: All providers are credentialed either by their unit or the facility in which they train. However, if they go to some other facility, their credentials and privileges must be validated by that facility. The question is how to speed up this process when we are dealing with a contingency action. If the professional has been credentialed by an active duty medical treatment facility, could their privileges be transferred? Could civilian credentialing be accepted on a temporary basis? ACTION RECOMMENDED: HQ ARPC/SG could coordinate the transfer of credential folders when an IMA is assigned to a medical treatment facility where he does not train. A consistent policy needs to be developed for all non-facility credentialed providers. SUGGESTED OPR(s), OCR(s): SGP COL KOENIGSBERG [(b)(2)]
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