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FSPHP Performance Enhancement and Effectiveness Review (PEER™) Frequently Asked Questions
What entities are eligible for a PEER™ program assessment?
- Geographic-the PEER™ program is global in scope. Programs anywhere in the world are eligible to participate.
- Occupational Roles Served-the PEER™ program is exclusively for organizations that provide health program services to healthcare workers in safety-sensitive occupational roles.
Why Participate in the PEER™ program?
- To enhance the Physician Health Programs (PHPs) ability to contribute to workforce health and preservation to the benefit of the profession and the public served
- To utilize FSPHP 2019 Guidelines to share best practices, enhance transparency, accountability, consistency, and excellence, and identify other opportunities for improvement
- To identify opportunities to enhance collaboration between PHPs, organized medicine, legislators, regulatory authorities, and other stakeholders
- To identify staffing, operational, financial, and other resource needs and allocation to support current and anticipated levels of service
- To provide recommendations for improving confidentiality protection and preserving a therapeutic alternative to discipline for PHP participants
- To improve the ability for long-term viability and availability of the PHP
- To enhance the effectiveness of PHPs
- To educate staff about policies and procedures through the review process
What are the Projected Long-Term Outcomes?
- To provide “accountability, consistency, and excellence” with a baseline for a PHP’s record of enhancing professional health
- To identify areas that will benefit from improvements
- To provide a strong foundation for an ongoing commitment to maintaining the quality of services, as well as strategic enhancement to a PHP
- To develop deeper insight and awareness into the importance of allowing our professionals the dignity to be patients, as well as providers, thereby enhancing patient health and safety
What is involved?
- Entity purchases the FSPHP Performance Enhancement and Effectiveness Review ™ (PEER™) Program Criteria and Metrics Version 2.0
- Entity applies by filling in an application available on FSPHP website
- Entity submits application, supporting documents, and review fee
- FSPHP-PEER™ staff randomly assigns FSPHP-PEER™ SME assessor
- Entity is asked about any Conflict of Interest (COI) w/ SME; Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDAs) are signed
- FSPHP-PEER™ staff send a Doodle poll to schedule the assessment (onsite or via web conference)
- FSPHP-PEER™ SME assessor performs the assessment
What does it cost?
- FSPHP Performance Enhancement and Effectiveness Review ™ (PEER™) Program Criteria and Metrics Version 2.0
- $399 (FSPHP Members)
- $599 (Non-members)
- PEER™ Assessment Fee*
- $9,000.00 (FSPHP Members)
- $14,000 (Non-members)
*The PEER™ Assessment Fee (covers the full assessment and includes SME assessor fee and travel expenses – if travel is necessary)
How do we prepare our entity?
- Purchase the PEER™ Criteria and Metrics Version 2.0
- Review your policy and procedure manuals
- Perform an internal gap analysis to align entity policies with FSPHP-PEER™ Criteria
- Perform an internal records review to verify that participant charts reflect adherence to your policies and the PEER™ Criteria and Metrics
Version 2.0
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