Medplace

01/09/2026

86 health center leaders were asked how their peer review program was doing. 16% said thriving. 58% said they do the minimum to meet requirements.

Nina Abubakari, MPH, MBA, JD, FACHE, President & CEO of Advantage Health in Detroit, is in the 16%. She wasn't always.

Five things she changed, in her own words:
→ Where the policy comes from — and why it's the first thing a surveyor asks for
→ Why finding a qualified reviewer is harder than running the reviews
→ What separates peer review that produces direction from peer review that produces files
→ Why your quality data and your FTCA exposure are the same map
→ How to get clinicians to stop avoiding review altogether

Her advice to everyone else: start sooner than you think you need to. The connections take longer to build than anyone expects.

Swipe through and save it for whoever owns quality at your center.

Full conversation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zPhqe1-p6Rw?si=Df-pRtzVBluCQ45v

27/08/2026

"Start sooner than you think you need to."

That's the advice Nina Abubakari, JD, MBA, President & CEO of Advantage Health, would give any health center whose peer review program is running on the minimum — which, going by the poll on this webinar, is most of them.

Not because of a deadline. Because connecting peer review to quality, to risk, to PCMH and to FTCA takes far longer than teams expect, and every one of those connections has to exist before the program is worth anything.

Her framing: make it work for your organization, and ultimately for the patient.

Fourth and last clip from this conversation. Full webinar on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zPhqe1-p6Rw?si=7XUtjkGb8erHw-2t

25/08/2026

The hardest part of peer review at a small health center isn't running it. It's finding someone qualified to do the reviewing.

Nina Abubakari, MPH, MBA, JD, FACHE, President & CEO of Advantage Health, on what it takes when your roster doesn't include a second clinician in the relevant specialty, and why a standardized tool and a written policy matter more than most teams expect.

This is a structural problem, not a performance one. It's the reason external review exists.

Full conversation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zPhqe1-p6Rw?si=kZpYcsChb_kmc3lO

21/08/2026

The reason clinicians resist peer review usually isn't the review. It's what they think happens next.

Nina Abubakari, MPH, MBA, JD, FACHE , President & CEO of Advantage Health Centers, on catching excellence alongside errors, you don't want people to shy away from peer review, you want them to welcome it.

Correction mode, not punitive mode.

It sounds like a soft point. It isn't. A program clinicians trust surfaces real findings. One they avoid surfaces nothing at all, which looks identical to everything being fine.

Full conversation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zPhqe1-p6Rw?si=tub8osrpi7vWRxyR

19/08/2026

Most peer review programs produce a file. Very few produce direction.

Nina Abubakari, MPH, MBA, JD, FACHE , President & CEO of Advantage Health Centers in Detroit, on the difference: peer review data has to connect to quality improvement in a real way; feeding provider report cards and the colour-coded quality dashboards her board actually reviews.

When a metric sits red quarter after quarter, peer review is often the thing that explains why.

On the same webinar, a live poll of 86 health center leaders found only 16% would call their peer review program thriving.

Full conversation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zPhqe1-p6Rw?si=s90eVVWQrUqFaY-i

17/08/2026

Day 2 at , and one conversation keeps repeating at Booth 309.

It goes something like this: "We know our peer review program needs to be stronger. We just don't have anyone who can actually do the reviewing."

That isn't a process problem. It's a coverage problem. When a service line runs thin, there's no clinician inside your own walls who can give that provider genuinely unbiased feedback, and internal review quietly becomes colleagues grading colleagues.

That's the gap Medplace closes. Ongoing peer review, one-time event review, and the analytics to catch patterns before they repeat. Reports come back in about six days.

We're at Booth 309 through tomorrow. Come tell us what your program looks like, or just come say hello.

And drop a business card in the bowl while you're here — we're giving away a reMarkable Paper Pro.

13/08/2026

Proud to be CNECT's newest supplier partner.

Community health centers shouldn't have to choose between meeting HRSA peer review expectations and protecting scarce clinician time. That tension is the whole reason Medplace exists.

Thanks to the CNECT team for the introduction to their network.

We'll be at National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) CHI next week, Booth 309. Stop by and let's chat about how Medplace can best assist your center.

We're simplifying the peer review process for community health centers with our newest supplier partner — Medplace!

Medplace helps FQHCs meet HRSA peer review requirements.

Participating health centers receive:

• A network of board-certified reviewers covering over 130 specialties.
• Unbiased peer reviews within six days on average.
• Medplace's easy-to-use digital dashboard and in-depth analytics to improve your workflows.

It's time to make peer reviews easier. Explore all Medplace has to offer: https://cnectgpo.com/contract/medplace/

12/08/2026

🤝 MEET THE TEAM AT NACHC CHI 2026

Four of us are heading to the Aria, Aug 16–18 — here's who to find and why it's worth the walk over.👇

Jerrod Bailey — Ask him where medical review is heading and how health centers can turn peer review from a burden into a quality engine. He's talked shop with hundreds of FQHC leaders this year and doesn't do the sales-pitch version.

Michael Ellenby, MBA, CPT, MPH candidate — Bring him your current peer review process, however messy, and he'll map out exactly what it looks like on Medplace; realistic timelines and costs, no fluff.

Mason McGurrin — Your go-to for a no-pressure walkthrough of pricing and what onboarding actually looks like week one.

Misty Shell, MBA-HCM, LPN — The person to ask the clinical questions: specialty matching, review rubrics, FTCA/HRSA documentation standards.

📍 : Aria, Las Vegas · Aug 16–18 · Book a meeting slot at [email protected]

11/08/2026

Las Vegas, we're coming for you. 🎲Medplace will be at the NACHC Community Health Institute & EXPO, Aug 16–18 at the Aria; our biggest event of the year.

Our team; Jerrod Bailey, Michael Ellenby, Mason McGurrin, and Misty Shell, — will be on-site all three days talking with health center leaders about one thing: how to make peer review the easiest part of your compliance program.

If your health center is wrestling with:
🔸 FTCA deeming & HRSA site visit readiness
🔸 Finding same-specialty reviewers your providers trust
🔸 Peer review that eats weeks of clinical leadership time...come find us.

15 minutes with our team could save your quality department hundreds of hours a year.📍 Book a meeting slot at [email protected]
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06/08/2026

How long does your average external peer review take? 60 days? 90? Longer? ⏳
Here's what that delay actually costs:
→ Quality issues stay unaddressed while cases sit in a queue
→ Credentialing and FPPE decisions stall
→ Providers wait months for feedback that should take days
Medplace's average turnaround: 6 days. ⚡
How? Specialty-matched routing across 300+ practicing experts, automated case workflows, and zero phone-tag with reviewers.
Speed isn't a vanity metric in medical review. It's the difference between catching a pattern now, or reading about it in a claim later. 📊
See how it works — book a demo meeting: [email protected]​​​
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