Information for Leadership:
COVID19 Disaster Privilege FAQs
What are Disaster Privileges?
What are the scope of disaster privileges? How do I know what privileges I will have, or what privileges my disaster-privileged staff will receive?
What can departments and divisions do to prepare if they believe they will need to use disaster privileging to ZSFG, VA , affiliates or members of the community?
Our subspecialty fellows are nearing completion of their fellowship and are currently engaged in a research year.
We may need them to be credentialed as faculty before their fellowship has concluded. Is this possible?
We have clinically active or research ACGME fellows who are board certified in their core specialty and we would like them to practice as an attendings. Do they need disaster privileges and in what areas can they practice?
For example, can a AGGME Pediatric OHNS fellow who has already completed residency OHNS training practice in pediatric OHNS or only in OHNS? Can a Cardiology ACGME fellow practice within Cardiology?
We would like to redeploy faculty from BCHO to BCHSF, do they need new privileges/disaster privileges? What about using ZSFG faculty or our affiliates? And community volunteers?
We would like to redeploy MDs to meet our workforce needs and to preserve the availability/health of our faculty. Do we need these redeployed MDs working in different roles to go through any credentialing?
(E.g. redeploying anesthesia faculty with limited current critical care experience to the ICU or Reproductive Endocrinology faculty with limited current labor and delivery experience to L&D.)
See below - Physician Redeployment
Physician Redeployment
Under the guidelines of disaster privileges, and for the limits of duration of the disaster, credentialing leadership has decided that the decision regarding appropriate redeployment within a Department rests with the Departmental leadership.
As long as the appropriate board certification or board eligibility is in place, the Medical Staff’s Credentials Committee ask that plans for proctoring and supervision be submitted to the Office of Medical Affairs and Governance (“OMAG” – medicalaffairs.ucsf.edu).
Please send your plans to the office’s executive director, Kosal Bo ([email protected]). Service provided in new clinical areas should be voluntary and every effort should be made to ensure that the credentialed provider has adequate training and is receiving appropriate supervision.
Documentation of these decisions will allow full medical malpractice coverage for these providers.
Chiefs and chairs are required to send lists of faculty being deployed in a new area to help coordinate with OMAG.
Adult Inpatient Redeployment Scenarios
Emergency Medicine
Inpatient Medicine
Critical Care
Pediatric Inpatient Redeployment Scenarios
Pediatric ED
Pediatric Medicine
Pediatric Critical Care
Adult Outpatient Redeployment Scenarios
Video Acute Care Clinic
Respiratory Symptom Clinic
Pediatric Outpatient Redeployment Scenarios
Video Acute Care Clinic
Respiratory Symptom Clinic