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AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE, CD OR AUDIO ARCHIVE

Sponsored by The Credentialing Resource Center

presented on June 12, 2007

Due to new Joint Commission standards, is your medical staff office changing the way it handles authorizing certain AHPs who provide services in your facility?

Are you prepared to handle the transition of these professionals to human resources?

What can be done proactively to assist HR staff new to working with AHPs?

Learn how to implement a team approach

When HR and MSPs work together, they can more efficiently meet The Joint Commission standards and accomplish the same goal. Each must support the other to best handle practitioner authorization. Listen to Assessing AHPs Under Joint Commission Standard HR 1.20: How the MSO and HR Can Meet in the Middle, and find out how.

Discover proven solutions to simplify and improve compliance

This 90-minute program will help listeners understand the 2007 Joint Commission standards for authorizing, through an HR or equivalent process, the most challenging and confusing type of AHP: the non-employed clinical professional. This program reviews current methods that MSOs are implementing to comply with the new standards. It will reveal why non-employed clinical professionals remain a challenge and how they can be authorized with both an eye to efficiency and patient safety.

TAKE A LOOK AT THE AGENDA

1. Narrowing down the focus to the HR side 
   1. Non-employed clinical professionals
      1. Agency people are surrogate employees and supplemental to workforce; they are not replacements
   2. HR side and where the real challenge is
2. What the standards say
   1. Don't over-interpret the standards
3. The issues for complying with these new standards
   1. MSO perspective
   2. HR perspective
4. Potential solutions
5. Case study
6. Q & A

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of this audioconference, you will be able to:

• Describe The Joint Commission HR Standard 1.20 and determine its requirements
• Explain how HR Standard 1.20 affects the assessment of AHPs’ qualifications and competence
• Define common pitfalls and barriers of transitioning non-credentialed/non-privileged AHPs out of the med staff and into the HR authorization path
• Identify several simple solutions for that transitioning

MEET THE SPEAKERS

Vicki L. Searcy, CPMSM, is practice director of credentialing and privileging for The Greeley Company, a Division of HCPro, Inc. She is the former president of Searcy Resource Group, LLC. Prior to the formation of the Searcy Resource Group, she was a partner with BDO Seidman, LLP, one of the nation's leading accounting, tax, and consulting firms, heading its national healthcare accreditation and compliance consulting practice. Since 1988, she has provided consulting services primarily in the areas of credentialing, privileging and quality, working with physicians and healthcare organization leadership, as well as interpretation and application of accreditation standards and licensing requirements. Searcy has been a surveyor for the National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA) for the credentialing verification organization certification program since its inception.

Lisa Eddy, RN, is a consultant for The Greeley Company. She brings over 18 years of healthcare management and leadership experience to her work with hospitals, physicians, and nurses nationwide. Applying her management and nursing experiences, she helps medical facilities and staffs develop solutions to their toughest problems. Eddy has extensive expertise in Joint Commission and American Osteopathic Association accreditation and CMS surveys. She has consulted in the areas of NCQA and Utilization Review Accreditation Committee accreditation, corrective action plans for regulatory body deficiencies, The Joint Commission requirements, credentialing, quality structure and redesign, healthcare leadership, performance improvement, healthcare education, quality management, medical staff compliance, and patient care operations.

Gail Thurmond, MD, MBA, as senior vice president of clinical effectiveness for Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, is responsible for over 2,000 medical staff members and oversees credentialing, peer review, regulatory readiness, and physician quality issues. As a member of senior management and quality teams, she champions the needs and perspectives of medical staff members and is a leader for quality and safety. Thurmond also served as chief medical information officer and led the design and implementation of electronic medical records at Methodist. At Health Choice, LLC, a physician-hospital organization, she served as medical director and chief medical officer, developing a vibrant case management function for managed contracts.

WHO SHOULD LISTEN?

Medical staff professionals, credentialing specialists, medical staff coordinators, medical staff directors, HR directors, quality professionals and directors, accreditation professionals and directors, compliance managers, risk managers

NEW PARTICIPATION OPTION: Audio Archive

In addition to the regular participation options for HCPro audioconferences—audio tape, or audio CD, we are pleased to offer a new option, an audio archive. An audio archive allows you to download the program and play it back at your convenience on your computer or MP3 player.

Purchase a tape, CD, or audio archive of the program and listen when you can. It's also a perfect training tool for new staff or as a refresher for veteran staff.

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