LIFEGUARD

The Foundation's nationally recognized program, LifeGuard, is a vanguard for addressing clinical competency assessment needs for physicians and other health care professionals. Serving physicians in more than 24 states, LifeGuard provides comprehensive assessment services and recommendations for remediation tailored to the individual needs of physicians and other eligible health care professionals. Through carefully customized evaluation programs, LifeGuard aims to facilitate higher performing physicians, promote patient safety and enhance the quality of medical care provided to ensure complete clinical competence. LifeGuard is not associated with any health system and as a core tenant utilizes a team of independent evaluators who have an explicit goal to fairly evaluate the physician. Core pathways include: re-entry/reinstatement, quality of care, practice monitoring, fitness for duty and late career assessment... When an event arises wherein a physician's medical knowledge, clinical..

Primary location: Mechanicsburg United States