- MEDICAL STAFF PLANNING

Optimize financial and operational performance through enhanced medical staff relationships. An effective Medical Staff Plan synthesizes information from various data sets including: Medical Staff Profile, Medical Market Profile, Patient Market Profile and Medical Staff PI Profile.

Medical Staff Profile provides detailed information about the strengths, weaknesses and direction of the current medical staff. Components include:

• Internal Medical Staff Analysis identifies areas for medical staff support and recruitment on a specialty and individual physician basis.
  
• Physician Key Informant Interviews provide detailed information about medical staff members' perceptions of the hospital/health system, strategic priorities and critical issues and concerns.
  
• Physician Focus Groups generate insight into key issues or trends affecting specific groups of physicians.
  
• Medical Staff Survey evaluates overall attitudes, satisfaction or practice issues.
  

Medical Market Profile identifies all physicians in the service area and allows right-sizing the medical community to the local population.

• Area Physician Database accurately identifies all practicing physicians in the service area by name, office locations, specialties, hospital affiliations, age, board certifications.
  
• Physician Demand Analysis identifies the need or surplus of physicians by specialty using a variety of methods in line with service area demographics.
  
• Medical Staff Market Share Analysis determines the strength of the medical staff relative to the competition.
  
• Physician Maps provide visual representation of physician locations.
  

Patient Market Profile defines key community and patient attributes impacting physician utilization and practice patterns.

• Service Area Definition can be client defined or NSI can define the Stark II service area which will comply with IRS/HHS regulations.
  
• Service Area Profile provides a foundation for medical staff strategic planning including market share, patient origin, demographics, and health professional shortage areas.
  
• Community Survey validates data and clarifies questions that arise during the Medical Staff and Medical Market Profiles.
  

Medical Staff Plan provides detailed strategies and tactics to achieve organizational medical staff goals.

Synthesizing data from the above Profiles, consultants work collaboriatively with Administration, Board of Trustees and Medical Staff representatives to develop a dynamic, targeted plan. Strategies can improve hospital-medical staff alignment, enhance efficiency, improve performance, impact quality of care, and increase financial results.

- MEDICAL STAFF PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT

Physicians have a major impact on resource consumption, cost and patient outcomes. Using NSI's proprietary risk adjustment methodology health care organizations can:

• Compare length of stay, costs and charges by medical staff departments and individual physicians;
  
• Analyze satisfactory and adverse outcomes on a risk-adjusted basis;
  
• Compare overall effectiveness of treatment to competitors
  
• Support a continuous quality improvement process;

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