

A hospital’s ability to prosper is dependent upon having a strong medical staff and mutually beneficial physician relationships. But the growing shortage of physicians, the increased tendency of physicians to enter into competition with hospitals, and the evolving culture in the medical community are making that success harder to achieve.
Healthcare Strategy Group offers a variety of services and products to help hospital executives develop a successful physician alignment strategy. We can help you to prioritize your efforts, define strategic physician needs and business relationships, and design and implement a feasible, sustainable plan.
Hospitals face growing, complex challenges. And questions about how to develop needed resources and prioritize the use of capital are increasingly difficult to answer. The challenges of staffing, meeting quality expectations, providing superior service, making a profit, protecting and growing market share, and building a strong physician base require strategic thinking. To developing a feasible plan requires detailed planning and a thorough financial analysis.
And because the strength of your medical staff is critical to the success of your strategic plans, our planning process focuses on physicians, assessing service gaps, engaging physicians in the process, building an educated and supportive cadre of physician leaders, and developing implementation plans that support the needs of both the hospital and its medical staff.
Through insightful analysis, our process will help you define the leverage points that will help you achieve success, and our detailed action planning will provide an implementation roadmap and increase executive confidence in and support of the plan.
Whether a private practice or hospital-employed model, physician practices are confronted with ever-increasing challenges to remain competitive and financially viable. From practice start-up to practice turnaround, Healthcare Strategy Group’s skill and experience can help your practice or network improve performance and strengthen market position.
Through a variety of education vehicles, Healthcare Strategy Group offers in-depth discussions and articles on topics of key interest to healthcare executives and physician leaders, and our planning resources include web-based tools to evaluate community/hospital physician needs, recruitment bottom-line impact, projected subsidy requirements, and more.
