What are the boards of healthcare organizations hearing about their role? No matter which conferences you attend or healthcare news you read, there are two major themes:
1. The board is accountable for quality of care, not just finance
Today's free resource is a sample form for creating an FPPE plan from Beebe Healthcare, a community hospital in Lewes, Delaware. Beebe’s policy allows concurrent OPPE and FPPE when an applicant is coming out of a residency program or another hospital with credentials that indicate he or she is...
The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) quietly updated its guidelines last spring, and the changes have left many medical staff services departments wondering what—if anything—they must do differently. If your medical staff has questions, tune in to "FPPE and the Revised NPDB Guidebook: How...
The Supreme Court of Michigan (the Court), reversing the decision of a trial court, held that objective facts contained in an incident report are protected by the state's peer review statute.
Two years ago, the National Association Medical Staff Services (NAMSS) launched its online repository to provide medical staff offices a place to quickly find and upload primary source practitioner affiliation history. Since then, the NAMSS Practitioner Affiliation Sharing Source (NAMSS PASS)...
In April 2015, the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) published its first new guidebook in 13 years. It includes a significant expansion of the NPDB’s definition of an investigation with direct impact on reporting requirements for physicians or dentists who resign while under investigation...
