“The difficulty with local peer review is that there is the possibility that a group of young surgeons may have an incentive to declare an older...Read More »
The exponential increase in the use of advanced practice professionals (APP) in ambulatory and acute care settings has increased patient access to care. However, this availability has put stress on the credentialing community. The C-suite, medical staff leaders, and MSPs struggle with...
Before sending peer review information, a medical staff should first look at state laws to ensure it has a mechanism in place to make disclosures...Read More »
Increasingly, mergers and acquisitions are making strange bedfellows of acute, ambulatory, and postacute care facilities. As these newly aligned...Read More »
Although ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) has been around for about a decade, it is still challenging for institutions to create meaningful data that reflects their practices. This sample advance practice professional reappointment performance profile report that can be used to...
Establishing a structure for reviewing OPPE reports can be challenging, especially given that the process requires the resource-intensive and time-consuming task of interpreting data. The medical staff drives the OPPE process; however, medical staff leaders often do not have adequate time to...
Aligning or integrating quality and medical staff services functions can promote earlier detection of systemic shortcomings that affect a hospital...Read More »
Finding that documents gathered, used, and generated during a hospital’s root cause analysis (RCA) process were privileged from disclosure, the...Read More »
