The Kentucky Court of Appeals (the “Court”) affirmed a circuit court’s judgment that peer review documents, produced by Saints Mary & Elizabeth Hospital (SMEH) in Louisville, were not admissible at trial in a negligence case brought by the estate of a former patient.
When conducting professional practice evaluation for APPs, peer reviewers should come from the same discipline whenever possible—PA to PA, NP to NP, CRNA to CRNA, and so forth. Of course, there may be times when it isn’t possible to get an evaluation from a peer in the same discipline. In such...
“I am particularly pleased this year that we will address two growing concerns—how to measure and track individual competence in an era of team-based care and how to extend peer review across the full continuum of care.”
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 3
The Supreme Court of Florida (the “Supreme Court”) has reversed a controversial Florida First District Appellate Court (the “Appellate Court”) decision. The Appellate Court had held that the federal Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (PSQIA) preempted a provision of the Florida...
The term “benchmark” originates from the chiseled horizontal marks surveyors made in stone structures, into which an angle-iron was placed to form a “bench” for a leveling rod for accurate future use. The meaning came from a long tract of level, elevated land called a bench. More recently, this...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 3
How do you make OPPE and FPPE more than just an item on the regulatory compliance checklist? Although it has been 10 years since The Joint Commission released its ongoing and focused professional practice evaluation standards, organizations are still struggling to develop meaningful processes...
