The phrase "hospital privileges" means the permission or rights given to doctors and other healthcare professionals to treat patients in a particular hospital. Full definition
In contrast, almost all direct entry midwives attend births in homes or in free - standing birth centers, although a very few licensed midwives are now getting hospital privileges or hospital employment. (cfmidwifery.org)
The committee found no evidence indicating that clinicians who perform abortions require hospital privileges to ensure a safe outcome for the patient. (sciencedaily.com)
When a midwife who has nearly lost hospital privileges and couldn't tell an obstructed labour to save her life continues to practice, promising she is a safe provider while not acknowledging that she has been sanctioned by her own College, when really she is actively continuing to lie to women and they pay with their bodies, how is that feminist? (skepticalob.com)