We invite you to download our informative webinar:
Getting Your Hospital's Peer Review Act Together
Hospitals are responding to the changes the Joint Commission made regarding peer review last year. Learn how to improve your peer review and meet the commission’s new standards. This is the one Webinar you won’t want to miss.
Join Patrice Spath and Dr. Skip Freedman for a 60-minute Webinar giving you a helpful tool to identify your peer review weak points. Learn new emerging best practices that you can use to improve your peer review process so your hospital can meet the Joint Commission’s new standards.
Learn strategies for:
* Assessing and improving your peer review process in the areas of: culture, operations, evaluations and the Joint Commission’s standards.
* How other hospitals are finding ways to meet the commission’s new standards for peer review.
* Emerging best practices that you can implement into your own action plan for improving their peer review process.
* To identify tools that can help you create an action plan for improving your peer review process.
The Joint Commission standards for 2007 broadened the need for hospitals to use external peer review, yet many hospitals are struggling with improving their peer review process. By watching this Webinar, you will learn how to assess your hospital peer review process and hear first hand about new best practices that other hospitals are using to meet the commission’s standards.
The webinar agenda:
* An overview of how JCAHO's standards impact peer review and the issues hospitals face in implementing this expanded vision of peer review.
* How to assess your hospital peer review process in four areas: culture, operations, evaluations and the Joint Commission’s standards.
* Best Practices for establishing an external review policy for your organization.
* Question and answer session.
Who should watch it?
Quality and risk managers, performance improvement specialists, peer review nurses, medical staff and quality management consultants or anyone else interested in applying the new Joint Commission’s standards to improving their peer review process.
Featured Speakers
* Patrice L. Spath, BA, RHIT, devotes the majority of her time to educating health care professionals in quality and resource management techniques. Since 1983 Patrice has authored several books and journal articles on patient safety, utilization management, performance improvement, staff development, and related topics.
* Dr. Skip Freedman, Executive Medical Director, has years of experience successfully facilitating peer review services for hospitals and medical groups, nationwide.
A question and answer session follows the presentation.
Downloads:
Everyone will receive a link to download our Peer Review Scorecard.
All viewers of the webinar will receive a link to our JCAHO Standards Guide.