The American Medical Foundation for Peer Review & Education is a non-profit 501(C)(3) national organization created in 1987 as a response to the Health Care Quality Improvement Act, (HCQIA) (P.L. 99-660), to provide independent assessment of the quality of medical care. The Act provides immunity for peer review done in good faith and requires that a physician adversely affected by peer review be accorded due process. Since our founding, we have served physicians, specialty departments, hospitals and other providers in balancing responsibility for quality medical care and patient safety with the individual rights of staff physicians. This peer review procedure, executed by recognized and impartial medical experts, provides confidential medical opinions to hospital chief executive officers, administrators, boards of directors, peer review committees, medical staff leadership and hospital counsel.

We maintain independence from all other medical or legal entities in order to insure the highest possible degree of fairness and impartiality to those under review.

Our peer review teams focus on rapid identification of the critical issues facing hospitals and their professional staffs. We realize that the entire institution suffers when staff conflicts, performance problems, credentialing issues, or educational deficits occur. With the pressures of the medical marketplace, institutions must act rapidly and efficiently to resolve such problems and disputes. Our goal is to inform, reduce risks, and offer practical solutions that benefit the entire institution. The Foundation for Advanced Medical Education, (FAME), can provide customized educational programs that a medical staff needs to bring their performance into line with the exacting standards of today’s carefully scrutinizing clinical environment.

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