Reinventing Centers of Exellence: Strategies for Saving and Strengthening Specialty Services

How can hospitals avoid losing cardiac and other specialty services to freestanding specialty hospitals? This report offers a conceptual and analytical framework for rethinking specialty services and for leveraging the center of excellence strategy. Tools and templates include a risk factor grid and a 12-page self-rating scale that can be used to evaluate your organization's progress toward becoming a full-service center of excellence.