Medical Staff Services

It is the responsibility of the Medical Staff office to thoroughly review and verify credentialing and privileging information on every applicant. We evaluate the practitioner’s ability, and current competency to provide quality patient care, and minimize risk.  We coordinate activities of the Medical Staff organization, provide support to Medical Staff leadership, committees, and maintain compliance with regulatory agencies.

Contact

P: 602-933-4681
F: 602-933-2467

Leadership:
Jenn Siguenza, DHA, MHA, CPCS, CPMSM, Director
Louise Jackson, Credentialing Manager

Categories of Medical/Allied Health Staff Membership

• Active Staff Qualifications:
  • Be involved in a minimum of fifty patient contacts at the Hospital over a 24-month period. A patient contact includes any admission, consultation, or procedure, response to emergency call, evaluation, treatment or service performed in any facility operated by the Hospital. 
  • Members may be appointed to this category at initial appointment where it is anticipated they will meet this criterion. If they have not completed a minimum of fifty patient contacts over a 24-month period, their category status will be changed to Associate. Otherwise, after initial appointment, category status will be assigned at reappointment time based on contact activity during the previous 24-month period or can be re-evaluated at any time by request of the Medical Staff member.

• Associate Staff Qualifications:
  • Be interested in the clinical affairs of the hospital and hold Privileges to actively manage patient care or to refer and follow hospitalized patients.
  • Admit or otherwise be involved in the care or treatment of less than fifty patient contacts within a 24 month period.
  • Engage in the active practice of medicine at some location, to allow the Medical Staff and Board to assess the Practitioner’s compliance with membership and privileging requirements.

• Affiliate:
  • The Affiliate Medical Staff category is comprised of physicians who have an active practice within the geographic service area of the Hospital as defined by the Board who wish to be affiliated with the Hospital but do not admit, manage, treat, or provide care to patients in the Hospital. Affiliate Medical Staff members do not have clinical privileges and may not write inpatient orders or progress notes or perform diagnostic studies or therapeutic interventions on inpatients.

Request a Hospital Affiliation Letter

To request a Hospital Affiliation letter, please click here.

Request an Application for Privileges/Check Status

To request a Medical Staff application or check the status of an application, please send an email to one of our credentialing specialists.

• Debra Hofman, Medical Staff Coordinator
  • Affiliate Provider (Initial & Reappointments)
  • Allied Health Provider (Initial appointments)
     
• Kathryn Macrides, Medical Staff Coordinator
  • Contracted Providers, example Chief Resident, Moonlighter (Initial appointments)
     
• Bridgette Nevins, Medical Staff Coordinator
  • New Employed Provider (Initial appointments)
     
• Jolena Thomas, Medical Staff Coordinator
  • New Employed Provider (Initial appointments)
     
• Angelica Macias, Medical Staff Coordinator
  • New Employed Provider (Initial appointments)
     
• Patricia Gomez, Medical Staff Coordinator
  • Surgery Department (Reappointments)
     
• Rachel Kimani, Medical Staff Coordinator
  • Anesthesia and Critical Care Department (Reappointments)
     
• Betty Koller, Medical Staff Coordinator
  • Medicine Department (Reappointments)
     
• Judith Cota, Executive Assistant 
   
• Vacant, Credentialing Administrative Assistant
  • FPPE (Focused Professional Practice Evaluation)

Phoenix Children's Medical Staff Officers

• President: Blake Bulloch, MD
• Vice President: Dustin Rayhorn, MD
• Chair, Credentials Committee: Deborah Tom, MD
• Chair, Peer Review Committee: Nate Page, MD
• Chair, Anesthesia & Critical Care Services: Joseph Graziano, MD
• Chair, Medicine Department: Shahan Fernando, MD
• Chair, Surgery Department: Lisa McMahon, MD
• Immediate Past President: Dorothy Rowe, MD
• Members-at-Large: Gwen Grimsby, MD; Richard Engel, MD; Joshua Koch, MD
• Nominating Committee Chair: John Jones, MD