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Medical Staff Needs Assessment and Development Plans

In today's environment, hospitals are facing greater challenges than ever before when recruiting physicians. While in the past, physician practices have generally replaced themselves with minimal support from the hospital, our clients today find that significant shortages in some key specialties are beginning to emerge. The Camden Group can assist you with:
  • A Medical Staff Development Plan that provides an overall view of the physician needs in the community and at the hospital. This plan documents the community need and identifies physician recruitment priorities to fill this need.
  • Physician Workforce Needs Assessment, which targets an individual physician specialty and thoroughly researches and documents the community need for this particular specialty/subspecialty.
Our team has assisted numerous hospitals across the country in appropriately identifying, documenting, and validating physician recruitment needs by providing medical staff needs assessment and development plans. Due to the federal government's scrutiny (e.g., Medicare Anti-Kickback statute, Stark I, II, and III, IRS Revenue Ruling 97-21) of physician-hospital recruitment arrangements, it is imperative that physician recruitment needs in the community are adequately, objectively, and appropriately documented.

Our approach provides an overall view of the physician needs in the community and at the hospital. We thoroughly research and document the community need and identify physician recruitment priorities to fill this need. Finding, recruiting, and ultimately retaining the right physicians for a hospital is a complicated process. Given this and the significant economic investment associated with physician recruitment, the process needs to be pursued with various strategic considerations in mind. The Camden Group team understands physician engagement within a framework that incorporates the key processes of recruiting, on-boarding, and retention.

In addition to documenting community needs, our studies serve as a strategic guide to the hospital in their overall strategic and service line business planning and help to crystallize the organization's physician strategy.

For more information on our medical staff needs assessment and development services, please contact us.
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