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Medical Staff Planning and Development / Physician Community Needs |
The physician shortage is projected to quadruple by 2020 as insurance coverage increases and the population ages.
DGA Partners helps healthcare organizations to focus recruitment and compensation efforts in this challenging environment. We can also document community need to meet regulatory requirements.
We have done so successfully in hundreds of medical staff planning and community need assessment engagements for community, teaching and academic medical center hospitals, including:
Physician Community Need Studies
DGA performs rigorous quantitative assessments of community need for physicians in a hospital’s service area. We look at the supply of physicians across 34 specialties, comparing supply with population-based requirements to estimate physician need by specialty. Commercial databases are only 50% accurate on average, so we compile our own physician inventory.
Medical Staff Development Plan
A medical staff development plan builds on the quantitative analysis of a community need study, adding qualitative and quantitative assessment of the hospital’s strategic medical staff requirements. We look at:
- Medical staff dynamics and unmet referral needs
- Strategic initiatives to determine medical staff required to support them
- Physician admission and attrition patterns and trends and likely changes
We develop recruitment recommendations by specialty, and project costs for these recruitment initiatives.
Specialty-Specific Community Need Analysis
To use hospital resources in recruiting new physicians for the community, the hospital must be able to provide rigorous documentation of need. DGA Partners supplements the assessment done in medical staff planning to create a detailed picture of community-level supply and demand on a specialty-specific basis.
Clients receive recruitment recommendations by specialty, along with projected costs for recruitment initiatives.
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