Wayne Memorial Hospital began tailoring its peer review processes to accommodate OPPE and FPPE shortly after The Joint Commission announced the new requirement in 2007. Since then, the hospital has implemented comprehensive, practice area-specific professional practice quality report forms that...
The South Dakota Supreme Court (the “Court”) recently reversed a circuit court’s decision ordering several healthcare providers to produce peer...Read More »
When implementing retrospective proctoring, it is important to standardize the approach. One good practice is to have medical records prescreened...Read More »
Most credentialing work is considered a peer review activity performed by the medical staff and governing board. As a result, state laws generally...Read More »
Credentialing and privileging have long been keystones of quality care and patient safety. But as healthcare reform drives consolidation,...Read More »
National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week presents an opportunity to elevate understanding of MSPs and to attract high-performing talent to the profession, says Raechel Rowland, RN, LSSGB, medical staff quality specialist at Ascension Borgess Medical Center (BMC) in...
National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week, which kicks off this Sunday, presents an opportunity to elevate understanding of MSPs and to...Read More »
NAMSS submitted comments to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requesting the inclusion of a detailed occupational listing for MSPs in the 2018 Standard Occupational Classification...
