More How-To Help Coming for Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations

• 5/7/2010
• Author: Janet Pimentel
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Ongoing professional practice evaluations (OPPEs) was the lead article for the April 2010 issue of The Source and you can expect it to be covered in future issues later this year. Many Joint Commission accredited hospitals and critical access hospitals have questions about this standard (MS.08.01.03) and find it to be challenging to comply with. Many of you who attended the Joint Commission’s 2010 Accreditation Summit in late April saw the newsletter article and asked me if this topic would continue to be covered in future newsletter issues. I can certainly work with Joint Commission staff members to find more ways to write articles to help you with conducting OPPEs. You might also be happy to know that The Joint Commission is working on developing a BoosterPak about OPPEs that is expected to be available sometime this summer on The Joint Commission Connect™ extranet sites. (This was mentioned during a presentation at the summit.)

In case you have forgotten, a BoosterPak is a searchable, online document that provides detailed information about a single standard or topic that has been associated with a high volume of inquiries or noncompliance scored in the field. The Joint Commission developed the BoosterPak concept as one way to improve the consistency of standards interpretation and understanding. I am looking forward to this BoosterPak for OPPEs because it will help me learn more about this complex topic as well.

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