on February 14, 2013 |
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Topics: Marketing, Planning, Strategy, Strategic Alignment, Workforce, Workforce Planning
Shay Pratt, Marketing and Planning Leadership Council
We recently participated in a strategic planning session with an organization that is building out their women’s services. In discussing the new job description for the women’s program administrator, the planning team asked a question that I think is on the minds of many—to whom does the women’s services administrative director typically report?
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Executive responsibility for women’s services: Who’s in charge?
on December 8, 2011 |
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Topics: Physician Issues, Primary Care, Service Lines, Workforce Planning, Workforce, Planning, Strategy
Eric Cragun
We frequently receive questions about how to right-size physicians networks, a need that has become more acute as hospitals simultaneously increase the number of physicians they employ and expand their primary care base. For many, the question is: how do we build a network with enough specialists to support primary care physicians, and vice versa?
There is no simple way to answer this question—quantitative data alone isn’t sufficient. That said, some CDC data provides valuable guideposts for thinking about the question. And they seem to suggest that the answer—if one exists—will differ by disease.
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Disease prevalence as a factor in sizing physician networks