The Regional Health Directorate, Central Region together with Management of Hope Christian Hospital organized a peer review as part of the requirements to ensure quality health care at an affordable cost to their clients within the Gomoa-Fetteh community and the country as a whole, after vigorous field checks the hospital was highly rated.
The Medical Director of the facility Ms. Judith Baffoe emphasized on the importance of peer review as inciting health professionals to be keen on maintaining good health standards. She also added that, the process is not just to rate the facility but to assess the hospital on its health delivery and professionalism amongst health professionals.
Ms. Baffoe was appreciative of the good work done by the staff and the team of assessors and the stakeholders who took their time to observe.
Peer reviews often are conducted for physicians employed by hospitals and health systems to fulfill an accreditation requirement for the Joint Commission. However, they also can be administered for clinicians who work in a small physician practice, a surgical center or other health care entities. 
Peer review usually remains confidential within an organization and isn’t subject to disclosure or legal discovery in most states.
The American Association for Physician Leadership explains that the process should evaluate physicians over a period of six to eight months based on aggregate risk-adjusted data, as opposed to a single case or event. To ensure objectivity, peer reviews should only be conducted by physicians of the same specialty and/or subspecialty.
Physician reviewers who are licensed and credentialed provide an advantage to the health care industry by improving productivity and further securing the rights of patients.
Speaking at the event, the Managing Director of Village of Hope (for which Hope Christian Hospital is a subsidiary) emphasized on how important the exercise was to him, issuing a promising statement that by the end of the year the facility will have its own waste incinerator.
Waste management has been a challenge in Ghana of which the facility takes a share of it and therefore if we are developing then we need to consider waste management as a major issue to resolve and this will help cut down cost and producing a product from the waste made by the facility.
The Chief of Gomoa Fetteh, Nana Abore Atta II sent representatives of the traditional stool elders since they are part of stakeholders of the facility. Speaking at the event, the representative said he was much enlightened and added that chief will do his part as a stakeholder since he wants to see his community develop.
