Developing a high performing medical staff
Develop a strategic plan for addressing medical staff development needs in your community and recruiting high performing physicians.
Health systems, not physician practices, tasked with recruiting
Medical staff development in today’s environment requires health systems to be proactive and assertive in their physician recruitment and retention efforts. Medical staffs are no longer replenishing themselves, for three key reasons:
- Resistance to the idea of recruitment among established physicians
- Increasing competition for physician talent in multiple sub-specialties
- Growing demands from physicians and practices for support
- Recruiting or employing physicians is expensive.
As a result, health systems must take ownership of medical staff development. Faced with increased regulatory constraints regarding relationships with physicians, health systems need appropriate documentation of “community need,” as well as fair market value and reasonableness of compensation.
How Southwind Helps
Be strategic in medical staff development...have a plan
Southwind offers three key medical staff planning tools designed to assess physician need in the community, determine fair market value and reasonableness of compensation, and establish a policy for physician recruitment.
- Our comprehensive physician needs assessment is based on a two-prong methodology that yields convergent analyses outlining the physician staffing needs based on quantitative and qualitative considerations.
- We provide a fair market value assessment for those physician–hospital relationships for which it is critical, including recruitment arrangements, payment for call, medical director compensation, locum tenens compensation, and full or temporary employment compensation.
- We work with health systems to develop a physician recruitment policy that, among other things, creates clear and consistently defined incentives for use in the recruitment process.
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For more information on how Southwind can support you in developing a high-performing medical staff, please contact us.
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