Baptist Memorial Health Care System joined theTennessee Center for Patient Safety, an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)–listed Patient Safety Organization (PSO), more than two years ago. In June 2012, Sharon Fiveash, RN, MSN, assumed the role of PSO administrator...
HCPro is working on a new book about OPPE, and we’d like you to be a part of it. Our goal for the book is to feature case studies of organizations that have implemented an effective OPPE program or process and are excited about sharing their experience and forms with their peers.The new book...
Here’s some good advice from the news this week: Locum tenens physicians are asked to “have patience with the administrative needs of the [review] process.” Di Hall’s advice could be applied to other physicians as well. If your organization is looking for a way to save both MSPs’ and...
Might surgeons soon be rated based on videos of their work? Videography in surgical skill peer review was named as a HealthLeaders Media Top Healthcare Quality Issue for 2014. The article cited a New England Journal of Medicine study which found that when surgeons watched...
For most medical staffs, OPPE and FPPE have become everyday parlance. Others still think of them as four-letter words. Now, several years after OPPE and FPPE were added to The Joint Commission's standards for hospitals, some facilities are still struggling to perfect their practices.
