Medical Staff Analysis

Health Planning Solutions works with you to assess your medical staff requirements. HPS conducts interviews to establish a realistic picture of your medical staff’s future plans and how those plans will impact market share and the need for replacement and recruitment.

First we conduct structured interviews with your medical staff in order to ascertain their plans over the next 5-10 years. Typically these interviews generate information about expected productivity of the existing practice, recruitment plans, expected retirement, and any anticipated changes in the nature of the practice which would affect the number and type of patients seen in the practice.

We then determine total expected volume in the market for each specialty based on the latest demographic and use rate information. We use age/sex specific use rates rather than ratio analysis in order to determine demand so that our projected volume reflects the demographic composition of your market.

Next, we determine the possible incremental volume in each specialty considering the projected capacity of your medical staff and hospital, market demand, and competitive parameters such as the supply of physicians in each specialty on competing hospital staffs.

The result is a precise understanding of the number of physicians required to adequately serve your community and to optimize hospital occupancy and outpatient capacity. At the same time this process allows us to set realistic growth expectations for the medical practices of physicians on your staff.

Health Planning Solutions believes that the best way to succeed in the health care market place is through an alignment of hospital, medical staff, and community interests. This can only be accomplished through this analytically-based planning process. An important by-product of this process is the consensus that the hospital and medical staff achieve regarding the necessary actions to meet the common goal of providing cost-effective health care for the community.