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Physician Community Needs Assessment |
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As demand for physicians increases faster than supply, hospitals and health systems may be putting more effort into physician recruiting and compensation. To expend those resources will require documentation of community need for physicians. The standard of documentation will be a high one, since the goal in physician community need assessment is regulatory compliance.
DGA Partners determines community need by performing detailed analyses of supply and demand on a specialty basis. We conduct telephone interviews to uncover factors that require adjustment to practice levels, including time by office location; pending retirements and administrative, supervisory and teaching time. These may convert what seemed to be an adequate supply of physicians to an undersupply, or vice-versa.
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