Ensure appropriate competency assessments for AHPs
Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, August 1, 2008
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Since The Joint Commission implemented ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) in 2007, much of the focus for the continuous monitoring of practitioners that OPPE requires has centered on physicians. Although The Joint Commission has identified two groups of nonphysicians who must be credentialed, privileged, and undergo OPPE through the medical staff process, it is easy for hospitals to lose focus on the need to assess the competency of other allied health professionals (AHP). (See below for details on Joint Commission standards regarding competency assessment for nonphysicians.)
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