The Joint Commission's Focused Professional Practice Evaluation

AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE, CD AND AUDIO ARCHIVE

Sponsored by Effective Peer Review, Second Edition

presented on September 11, 2007

The Joint Commission has introduced requirements for focused professional practice evaluations (FPPEs).

The Joint Commission now requires medical staffs to develop criteria for conducting FPPE when a question arises about a practitioner's competence to provide safe, high-quality patient care. In addition, under MS.4.30, medical staffs must conduct an FPPE for all initially requested privileges, beginning January 1, 2008.

Get the tools you need to comply.

Listen to HCPro's The Joint Commission's Focused Professional Practice Evaluation: Competency, proctoring, and peer review, and understand the new regulatory requirements for FPPE.

Do you understand how these requirements affect your medical staff office (MSO)?

FPPE is an intensive peer review of a physician's performance, triggered by a patient care concern, or at the granting of new privileges, in accordance with Joint Commission standards. Such reviews may be as innocuous as a retrospective chart review or as intensive as having a proctor observe a physician's behavior.

This 90-minute presentation will help you understand how to plan and conduct appropriate FPPEs, based on the triggering events and surrounding circumstances. In some cases, a department chair can perform the review, but in others a medical staff member, outside expert, or physician panel must do so. This audioconference provides the tools and information you need to plan, conduct, and evaluate FPPEs more efficiently and effectively.

TAKE A LOOK AT THE AGENDA

1. FPPE: What is The Joint Commission requiring?
   1. New regulations in effect in 2008
2. The many faces of FPPE: Different methods of proctoring
   1. Prospective
   2. Concurrent
   3. Retrospective
3. Applying FPPE to the new applicants: Measuring the FPPE
   1. Method
   2. Policy
   3. Credentials committee decisions
   4. Document what you measure
4. Elements of an effective proctoring policy
5. Q&A

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of the program, participants will be able to:

• Understand how to meet the 2008 regulatory requirements for FPPE
• Implement best practices in applying proctoring methods
• Develop an FPPE process for new applicants

MEET THE SPEAKERS

Vicki L. Searcy, CPMSM, serves as the practice director for Credentialing and Privileging at The Greeley Company.  She brings over 25 years of experience to her work with hospitals, healthcare systems, health plans, medical groups, and credential verification organizations across the country. 

Mark A. Smith, MD, MBA, is a senior consultant for The Greeley Company.  Dr. Smith brings 25 years of clinical practice and hospital management experiences to his work with physicians and hospitals across the United States.

WHO SHOULD LISTEN?

Chiefs of staff, credentials committee chairs, medical staff professionals, credentialing specialists, quality directors, medical staff leaders, credentialing committee members, medical executive committee members, peer review committee members

NEW PARTICIPATION OPTION

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. Audio archive allows you to download the program and play it back at your convenience through 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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