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AUDIOCONFERENCE ON CD OR AUDIO ARCHIVE

Sponsored by The Essential Guide to Medical Staff Reappointment, Second Edition
presented on March 5, 2008

New ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) requirements have significantly changed the reappointment process.

Due to recent changes in Joint Commission standards, healthcare organizations must establish routine measures or indicators of practitioner performance for current medical staff members. For medical staff professionals (MSP), this means ensuring that their reappointment process collects criteria-based data in an ongoing way—not just when the practitioner is up for reappointment.

Because reappointment is now a byproduct of ongoing evaluation of practitioner competence, organizations are better equipped to improve practitioner performance prior to reappointment. OPPE in particular challenges MSPs to parse increasingly large amounts of practitioner quality data on an ongoing basis, rather than just every two years, and is driving the healthcare industry toward a more objective and evidence-based privileging process.

Listen to HCPro's Retool Your Reappointment Process: Strategies for OPPE Compliance, to ensure that your reappointment process complies with Joint Commission standards. Because there is no “magic bullet” that works for everyone, it’s even more critical for MSPs to learn how to put together a plan that works for their hospital. With audioconference participation, you’ll gain tools to help you:

• Set up an OPPE framework that is best for your facility
• Identify your organization’s unique requirements
• Deal with common challenges that can bog down reappointment
• Get started right away with a process that works right for you

You’ll also discover that many materials and processes you already have in place can be repurposed to meet the latest requirements.

AGENDA

1. Public accountability for quality
2. Joint Commission requirements
   1. General competency requirements
   2. OPPE
   3. FPPE
   4. Reappointment/renewal of privileges
3. How to do OPPE well
   1. Framework
   2. Expectations
   3. Indicators
   4. Feedback report
4. Using OPPE information in the reappointment and renewal of privileges process
   1. Identify a few problems in your facility
   2. Collecting the right data for your hospital’s needs
   3. Using data you already have
   4. Physician relevance/physician specific
5. Q&A

Please note: for this intermediate-level program, participants should already know about their facility's:

1. Current reappointment process and its weaknesses
2. Existing data systems

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

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

1. Identify the framework for the physician performance and how it relates to the new standard
2. List three tools that can be used in an OPPE
3. Identify strengths and weaknesses of current programs

BONUS TOOLS

With this audioconference purchase, you will also receive forms and tools you can customize for your reappointment process:

• Competency profiles
• FPPE evaluation forms
• A reappointment audit tool

Bonus tools are included with your materials packet.

MEET THE SPEAKERS

Carol S. Cairns, CPMSM, CPCS, is a senior consultant at The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc. She brings over 35 years of experience in healthcare management to her work with hospitals and medical staffs nationwide. Cairns applies her management and clinical experiences to help healthcare providers develop solutions to their unique needs and objectives. She has a particular expertise in credentialing and privileging.

Mary J. Hoppa, MD, MBA, is a senior 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.

Linda Scribner, CPHQ, BA, is currently the director of clinical outcomes management for Methodist Dallas Medical Center in Dallas, TX. She has worked as a director with all hospital and medical staff departments in all areas of organizational improvement. A trained facilitator and team leader for improvement teams and a consultant in healthcare quality and performance improvement, she currently serves as the professional development director on the NAHQ Board of Directors.

WHO SHOULD LISTEN?

Medical staff coordinators and professionals, medical staff directors, credentialing coordinators, managers of medical staff services, chief medical officers, VPMAs, quality managers/directors, credentials committee members, medical executive committee members

Purchase a 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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