In December 1996, the
hospital created the West Park Assessment Centre (WPAC)
or the Assessment Centre, to provide greater focus on establishing
a presence in the Independent Assessment market. WPAC was
established as a strategic business unit, providing objective
third-party assessments and opinions, primarily to automobile
and disability insurers, as well as to the medico-legal
community and disability management consultants.
The Assessment Centre
Today
WPAC currently operates
as a distinct business unit under West Park Healthcare Enterprises
(WPHE), a wholly owned division of WPHC, a publicly funded
rehabilitation, long-term and complex continuing care centre.
The Enterprises division exists to provide strategic focus
to the business operations within West Park. All profit
from WPHE is used to support those initiatives that are
important to West Park but are not funded by the Ministry
of Health and Long-Term Care, including, for example, education
bursaries for staff.
WPAC has a Business Advisory
Group whose membership includes business professionals that
provide counsel and advice to the Centre’s CEO and
the management of the Assessment Centre.
The Assessment Centre
conducts multidisciplinary assessments on a fee-for-service
basis, including Insurer Examinations and Independent Medical
Examinations. As a DAC, we also conducted Medical and Rehabilitation
and Attendant Care DAC assessments, with extended authorizations
for acquired brain injury and spinal cord injury (M/R) and
paediatrics (Attendant Care). Our extensive and highly specialized
roster is comprised of a team of health and other professionals
from the following disciplines: physiatry, orthopaedic surgery,
neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, psychology,
neuropsychology, cardiology, oral and maxillofacial surgery,
otolaryngology, rheumatology, ophthalmology, internal medicine,
plastic surgery, urology, chiropractic, physiotherapy, occupational
therapy, speech-language pathology, registered massage therapy,
registered nursing, vocational evaluation and social work.
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