Seminars
Peer Review Boot Camp: Chicago, IL
Intensive Training for Committee Chairs, Members, and Support Staff
Jun 10, 2010 - Jun 11, 2010
Chicago, IL
Overview
We know peer review today isn‘t easy, especially if you have to learn it on your own!
Are you:
- A new peer review committee member who hasn’t been trained to do your job?
- A peer review committee chair who wants to create a positive peer review culture?
- Struggling to implement OPPE and FPPE with your current peer review system?
- Interested in implementing multispecialty-based peer review but don’t know where to start?
- Looking for practical approaches to help the medical staff take peer review seriously?
If so, attend Peer Review Boot Camp. Taught by physicians who have helped hundreds of medical staff peer review committees implement effective approaches, this program offers a combination of lecture, exercises, practical methods, and detailed clinical case studies to help you:
- Minimize peer review bias
- Improve committee efficiency
- Increase the use of aggregate data
- Create a positive peer review culture
- Effectively evaluate physician performance
- Meet OPPE and FPPE requirements
Featured topics include:
- OPPE, FPPE, and physician core competencies
- Minimizing bias in peer review
- Creating a practical policy for OPPE and FPPE
- Increasing the use of aggregate data in your peer review program
- Challenges and solutions for physician data attribution
- Identifying physician performance trends and what to do about it
- How to train your own peer review committee
This program doesn’t waste time on general information and basic principles you already know.
Peer Review Boot Camp gets right to the heart of the most challenging issues in peer review. It offers in-depth, intensive, and practical training for physicians recently appointed to peer review positions, leaders with peer review responsibilities who need to train their committee members, and hospital staff supporting the peer review process. This program provides:
- Tools to perform reliable case reviews with less bias
- Practical methods to use aggregate data to evaluate patterns and trends
- Answers to your everyday peer review questions and challenges using practical techniques and best practices to measure and improve physician competency
- Strategies to create effective action plans to improve physician performance
- Practical policies and tools to apply in your own organization
Add a customized onsite session to your seminar experience
We now also offer you the opportunity to meet with a faculty consultant, either prior to or following the seminar sessions, for the purpose of a customized educational retreat or consultation with you and your team. There is an additional fee for this option, and availability is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis. To arrange your session, please contact Stacey Koch, Director of Client Relations, at skoch@greeley.com or 888/749-3054, Ext. 3193.
Agenda
DAY 1
| 7:00 a.m.–8:00 a.m. | Registration and continental breakfast |
| 8:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m. | Preparing for Peer Review Training
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| 9:30 a.m.–9:45 a.m. | Break |
| 9:45 a.m.–11:15 a.m. | Case Review Intensive Training
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| 11:15 a.m.–11:30 a.m. | Break |
| 11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m. | Case Review Training Application: Four clinical case reviews and discussion |
| 1:00 p.m. | Adjourn |
| 5:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. | Networking reception |
DAY 2
| 7:00 a.m.–8:00 a.m. | Continental breakfast |
| 8:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m. | Aggregate Data Intensive Training
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| 9:30 a.m.–9:45 a.m. | Break |
| 9:45 a.m.–11:15 a.m. | Aggregate Data Training Application: Four clinical case studies and discussion |
| 11:15 a.m.–11:30 a.m. | Break |
| 11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m. | Using Peer Review to Improve Physician and Medical Staff Performance
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| 1:00 p.m. | Adjourn |
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program, participants should be able to:
- Apply principles for developing a fair and efficient peer review structure to implement OPPE
- Implement policies that minimize bias in the peer review process
- Create case review criteria that decrease unnecessary physician reviews
- Improve use of currently collected aggregate data
- Define targets for evaluating excellent and acceptable physician performance
- Use physician competency feedback reports to meet Joint Commission standards for OPPE
- Discuss approaches for effective FPPE related action plans
- Evaluate their own medical staff quality program against national benchmarking information
Who Should Attend
Practitioners who are expected to lead or participate in a medical staff peer review and hospital support staff. Ideal attendees include medical staff quality/peer review committee chairs, peer review committee members, designated physician reviews, medical staff officers, chief medical officers, VPMAs, medical directors, department chairs, quality directors, quality staff supporting peer review, and medical staff services professionals.
Speakers
Mary Hoppa MD, MBA, CMSL
Senior Consultant
Dr. Hoppa serves as a senior physician consultant at The Greeley Company. She brings over 15 years of healthcare leadership and management experience to her work with physicians, hospitals, and healthcare organizations across the country. Dr. Hoppa's roles in hospital administration and medical staff leadership in academic and community hospital settings make her uniquely qualified to assist physicians and medical centers in developing effective solutions to their most significant challenges. She has an expertise in quality, peer review, regulatory, risk management, credentialing, infection control, medical records, operational re-engineering, and care coordination. Dr. Hoppa's previous positions include chief medical officer, physician advisor, medical director of an employed physician group, medical director of various insurance plans, and member of the Iowa Board of Medical Examiners.
Robert Marder MD, CMSL
Practice Director of Quality and Patient Safety
Dr. Marder is vice president of The Greeley Company. He works with hospitals and healthcare systems throughout the country in the areas of medical staff peer review, hospital performance improvement, patient safety/error reduction, and case management. He has served as vice president for medical affairs at Holy Cross Hospital in Chicago, assistant vice president for quality management at Rush Medical Center in Chicago, and project director for clinical indicator development at The Joint Commission. He is a board-certified pathologist and was assistant director of laboratories at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
Speakers subject to change.
CE Credits
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
HCPro, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
HCPro, Inc. designates this educational activity for a maximum of 9 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE)
HCPro, Inc. is authorized to award 9 hours of pre-approved Category II (non-ACHE) continuing education credit for this program toward advancement, or recertification in the American College of Healthcare Executives. Participants in this program wishing to have the continuing education hours applied toward Category II credit should indicate their attendance when submitting application to the American College of Healthcare Executives for advancement or recertification.
National Association Medical Staff Services (NAMSS)
This program is pending approval by the National Association of Medical Staff Services for 10.5 continuing education units. Accreditation of this educational program in no way implies endorsement or sponsorship by NAMSS.
National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ)
This activity has been approved by the National Association of Healthcare Quality for 9 CPHQ CE credits.
Hotel
The Palmer House
17 East Monroe Street | Chicago, IL 60603
312/726-7500
Online Hotel Reservations
Reservations:
877/866-5321
Discounted Room Rate (deadline: May 8): $209 per night
For the discounted room rate, reservations must be made by May 8, 2010. Be sure to mention The Greeley Company/HCPro Inc. to receive the discounted room rate. Rooms are available on a first-come, first-served basis and often sell out before the May 8th cutoff date. Make your hotel reservations immediately to guarantee rate and availability.
As the longest continuously operating hotel in North America, The Palmer House has been the destination of choice for every U.S. president since Ulysses S. Grant, world leaders and dignitaries, celebrities, and Chicago’s movers and shakers. The hotel is within walking distance of the city’s best attractions, including shopping on the Magnificent Mile, Chicago’s theater district, Millennium Park, various city museums, and other cultural attractions near Chicago’s loop. Hotel accommodations include Spa Chakra, a complimentary indoor pool, Precor® Health Club, Lockwood—a “Luxe-dining” restaurant—and Potter’s Lounge.
Pricing
| Early Bird Rate (Apr 09, 2010) | $895.00 individual attendee | $3,580.00 team of five |
| Regular Rate | $995.00 individual attendee | $3,980.00 team of five |
- Cancellations received by HCPro, Inc. 30 days or more prior to the seminar are eligible for a credit or refund, less a $250 cancellation fee. The credit will be valid for up to 6 months from date of cancellation.
- Cancellations made 30 to 10 days prior to the seminar date(s) are not eligible for refunds but are eligible for payment transfer (credit) to another HCPro, Inc. seminar, less a $250 cancellation fee. The credit will be valid for up to 6 months from date of cancellation.
- Participant(s) who cancel less than 10 days prior to the seminar date(s) will be considered as "no shows" and will not be eligible for refunds/credits.
This policy is subject to change.
Exhibits/Sponsorship
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