Medical Staff Demand Analysis

Each hospital and community has its own unique needs. A Community Needs Assessment, sometimes referred to as a Medical Staff Demand Analysis, is required for planning and regulatory purposes. The complete Community Needs Assessment identifies the demand for all medical specialties within your community and it is the foundation of your hospital’s clinical and physician strategy. Carnahan Group consultants perform on-site visits and interviews to gain insight on your healthcare delivery system and the surrounding community. Knowledge gained from those first-person interviews, coupled with data analytics and highly informative graphics, facilitates our consultants in delivering a complete Community Needs Assessment that offers your organization an accurate, realistic and detailed analysis.

Carnahan Group offers one of the most useful and effective tools to have in your hospital’s strategic arsenal—the comprehensive Community Needs Assessment. It identifies the need for all medical specialties within a community. It is the foundation for your hospital’s clinical and physician strategy and it is required for planning and regulatory purposes.

Recruiting Plans

This assessment clearly defines the projected demand for physicians by specialty and outlines their priority and time of need.

Hospital Service Areas
We use the Stark II Phase II Final Rule guidelines to determine a hospital’s service area, which is “composed of the lowest number of contiguous zip codes from which the hospital draws at least 75 percent of its inpatients.”

Unbiased Testimony
Community Needs Assessments are highly regulated. Should a report ever be challenged in a court of law, Carnahan Group will gladly defend our data. Our consultants provide expert, unbiased testimony. Each hospital and community has its own unique patterns. While our data analytics produce accurate and highly informative numbers, Carnahan Group also consults your healthcare community to gain insights on your healthcare delivery system.

Quantitative and Qualitative Processes
Carnahan Group uses a two-pronged model to reveal the human variables that influence supply and demand for physician services. Working closely with your hospital community, our approach uses an iterative feedback and follow-up loop.

Community Needs Assessment Report
Our summative evaluation process creates a strategic tool to help you solve problems proactively and set realistic goals. This analysis includes:

• Key indicators toward assessing staffing needs
• Community overview
• Demographic synthesis

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