When conducting professional practice evaluation for APPs, peer reviewers should come from the same discipline whenever possible—PA to PA, NP to...Read More »
Collegial interventions are not considered disciplinary measures or formal “corrective actions;” rather, they are considered peer review activities that are directed at improving a practitioner’s performance.
This policy enumerates various collegial interventions that can help...
“I am particularly pleased this year that we will address two growing concerns—how to measure and track individual competence in an era of team-...Read More »
The Supreme Court of Florida (the “Supreme Court”) has reversed a controversial Florida First District Appellate Court (the “Appellate Court”)...Read More »
The term “benchmark” originates from the chiseled horizontal marks surveyors made in stone structures, into which an angle-iron was placed to form...Read More »
How do you make OPPE and FPPE more than just an item on the regulatory compliance checklist? Although it has been 10 years since The Joint...Read More »
Charged with revamping its OPPE and FPPE processes, Ascension Borgess Health in Kalamazoo, Michigan, hired a medical staff quality specialist who used the tools of Lean Six Sigma to complete the project. The forms attached here are some of the tools she used to assess the current state and...
The most common rule indicators are going to be your core measures where the physician is responsible for something. Rule indicators are an event...Read More »
