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Make the Physician Shortage Work for You
With a looming physician shortage, your ability to successfully recruit and retain physician talent will be a key weapon in the fight for market dominance. Hospitals can earn the upper […]
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The Battle for Talent: Get Aggressive or Lose
The prevalence of larger, more complex employed physician networks is causing many hospitals and health systems to reevaluate the management infrastructure required to run them. Finding the executive talent to […]
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Why Physician Employment Doesn’t Translate Into Loyalty or Alignment? Culture Trumps Strategy Every Time!
Now that the ink is drying on our new physician’s contract, we should be all set, right? Maybe. Maybe not. Look at the results of your employee engagement surveys and […]
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4 Key Moves to Structure Win-Win Physician Deals
In HSG’s extensive experience with brokering deals between hospitals and physicians, we’ve identified four key moves that are critical for success. 1: Communicate Expectations and Desires Early in employment discussions, […]
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5 Steps to Developing a Common Vision for Your Employed Network
Faced with the transition to value, clients are raising a relatively new question: “How do we create a shared vision with our physicians, particularly those that we employ?” Healthcare Strategy […]
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7 Ways Physician Strategy Outperforms Traditional Manpower Planning
Traditional manpower planning is inadequate for success in today’s rapidly-changing healthcare environment. Instead, Healthcare Strategy Group recommends a comprehensive physician strategy tor medical staff development that: Establishes goals and priorities, […]
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Case Study: Building a Health-System-Level Physician Strategy
Background A statewide system in the Southeast was struggling with decentralized decision making in its physician network. With no system-level plan in place, executives at the system’s six hospitals were implementing […]
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Adding Value to Physician Compensation Strategy: Gaining Physician Buy-In
Contemplating adding value to your physician compensation plans? Physician involvement in the planning process is crucial. The two essential elements of that involvement: physician education and a collaborative process. Physician […]