IRR MOBILIZATION

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                                        MEDICAL 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)]