• Process medical staff applications for appointment and reappointment while assuring regulatory compliance as well as compliance with medical staff bylaws.
• Ensure applications are processed and reviewed in a timely fashion. This includes verifying and analyzing the accuracy and completeness of the application and proof of current licensure, malpractice insurance coverage, etc.
• Verify and evaluate past clinical training, present and past hospital medical staff affiliations and clinical privileges.
• Coordinate, support and attend medical staff department and committee meetings as assigned.
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  Compose minutes in prescribed format and assure timely follow up correspondence.
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  Initiate, complete and document all follow up work as indicated by department/committee action.
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  Works closely with risk management and quality improvement to integrate Medical Staff quality assurance and peer review findings with the reappointment review process.

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Knowledge of medical staff administration and credentialing principles.
• Knowledge of medical terminology.
• Initiative, experience in decision-making, detail oriented and independent work habits.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to develop and maintain effective working relationships with the medical and ancillary staff.

• CPCS or CPMSM preferred.

Position Details

• Job Type/FTE: Full-Time (1.0 FTE)
• Shift: Days, Monday through Friday, 7:30am-4pm
• Unit/Department: Medical Staff Office
• CBA Code: Non-Union

For nearly a century Ingalls Memorial has pioneered sophisticated clinical care and developed the area's most convenient network of comprehensive outpatient centers, all dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of the community. Now, partnered with UChicago Medicine, we have expanded our network of expert physicians, convenient facilities and scope of service to speed your healing process and help navigate your path to wellness. A skilled Medical Staff and talented employees dedicated to prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of illness and injury provide a firm foundation for our reputation for quality. To accomplish this, we need employees with passion, talent and commitment… with patients and with each other. We’re in this together: working to advance medical innovation, serve the health needs of the community, and move our collective knowledge forward. If you’d like to add enriching human life to your profile, UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial is for you. Here at Ingalls, we’re doing work that really matters. Join us!

UChicago Medicine Ingalls is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, civil union status, parental status, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status and other legally protected characteristics.