Women’s Specialty Centers by Vicki Lucas

Women’s Specialty Centers (WSC) are often a collaboration between service lines as a business development strategy that benefits both partners.  For example, Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU) has a National Center for Excellence in Women’s Health (WHC) and the Knight Cardio-vascular Institute (KCI).  Both are well-funded and nationally recognized but they previously lived in…

Best Practice Perspectives: External Peer Review

The concept of peer review within healthcare service lines can be likened to a type of preventive maintenance, much like hospital equipment  that involves regularly-scheduled check-ups to avoid a costly fix.   Because, why wait for an event to trigger an investigative review and subsequent expensive repair or replacement?  In many situations the “retrospective” review comes…