Request quality data from other hospitals
March 30, 2016
Collaboration within and beyond the hospital is key to a robust OPPE process. MaineGeneral Medical Center, part of MaineGeneral Health system in the Augusta area, has taken this philosophy to heart. The hospital initiated OPPE and FPPE in 2009, but had a similar physician quality assessment process in place long before The Joint Commission standard took effect.
Today’s free resource is a letter MaineGeneral uses to request OPPE information from other organizations that have appointed a given physician to their medical staff.
Source: The OPPE Toolbox: Field-tested Documents for Credentialing, Competency, and Compliance