Accelerating Progress in Your Physician Network – How HSG Can Support Your Growth

Spurred by the need for better integration and the need to protect volumes, billions have been invested by hospitals and health systems in physician practices. In many cases, the result has been massive losses for the system with few of the benefits promised by integration. Rather than creating effective, multi-specialty groups, health systems are saddled […]
Strategic Planning in Healthcare Organizations

Accelerating Progress in Your Physician Network

Spurred by the need for better integration, and the need to protect volumes, billions have been invested by hospitals and health systems in physician practices. HSG’s focus is on helping produce value from those investments by evolving your physician network. HSG’s Physician Network Growth Phases Curve defines the stages of your network’s evolutionary progress. As […]
Management

Building Management Expertise for Your Employed Physician Network

Hospitals and health systems have been aggressively investing in their employed physician networks for the last 10 years or more. Most, however have not developed the leadership infrastructure or acquired the management expertise to effectively manage these networks. HSG has developed a multi-faceted approach to support you in your efforts to build a high-performing network.  We […]

Culture: “67 Tips for a High-Performing Physician Network”

A common culture, guided by a shared vision of the future and behavioral norms, is the key to developing a strong group.   TIP 11 Start by discussing culture. We find it useful to get physician leaders to envision an elite group, and think about behaviors and expectations that would permeate such a group. This […]

Webinar: Employed Physician Network Turnaround: The First 100 Days

Hospital systems faced with mounting operating losses in their employed physician networks often struggle with how to turn things around. During this 60-minute webinar, HSG discusses: How to craft a 100-day physician network turnaround plan based on the eight key elements of high-performing physician networks: strategy, physician leadership and governance, culture, quality, brand identity, financial […]