Learning Objectives
Learn how a large academic and safety net hospital transitioned from heterogeneous, nonstandardized peer review to a centralized and standardized, process-driven system for medical staff peer review.
Speakers
Noelle Borders, DNP
Noelle is the director of Professional Practice Excellence at the University of New Mexico Hospital. Under the auspices of Quality and Safety, she directs Medical Staff peer review activities, including hospital wide, high level case review from the professional practice perspective, FPPE for cause, OPPE, and rule violation validation processes. Noelle has worked as a Certified Nuse-Midwife and member of the Medical Staff for over 20 years. Currently, Noelle is also facilitating a highly engaged inter-disciplinary team in the development of UNMH's Communication and Reconciliation Program.
Rohini McKee, MD, MPH
Dr. Rohini McKee, MD, MPH, FACS, is Professor of Surgery and Chief Quality and Safety Officer at UNM Hospital, a role she has held since October 2020. She is double board-certified in General Surgery and Colon and Rectal Surgery, having completed her residency and fellowship training at Brown University in 2006. Her work focuses on quality, patient safety, reliability, and clinical systems transformation within academic health systems. She also helped develop LOBO STEPPs, a locally adapted team training and communication program based on TeamSTEPPS principles to support high reliability and interdisciplinary collaboration across the health system. She is particularly interested in how academic medical centers can move from measuring quality to engineering reliability across complex clinical delivery systems.