"When I talk about PSOs what seems to resonate are the peer review protections. And what I say is, look, this is not a mafia regime coming to the neighborhood to offer you protection," says Matthew Womble, executive director, Emergency Medical Error Reduction Group, a PSO based...
Last month, Rosemary Dragon, CPMSM, CPCS, medical staff coordinator of OrthoColorado Hospital/St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, Colorado, shared strategies for fostering interdisciplinary collaboration in new practitioner orientation. This month, she's back with advice on tackling practical...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 5
In the case of Figueroa v. Hynes, the Fifth District Appellate Court of Florida recently upheld a trial court’s decision that a meeting of the medical executive committee (MEC) at Holmes Regional Medical Center (HRMC) in Melbourne, Florida was protected by the state’s peer review...
Most hospitals explicitly agree to indemnify medical staff members for performing peer review work on behalf of the institution. This indemnification covers the legal expenses of the proctor should he or she be named in a lawsuit, and it typically covers any judgment against the proctor as long...
