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.

Audio Web Conferences

Healthcare Strategy Group's audio web cast educational programs focus on helping healthcare organizations to manage critical issues in physician strategy, physician, relations, and business development. The web conferences, one and one-half hours in length, are presented as live and on-demand events.

Board/Management Team Education

Healthcare Strategy Group is frequently asked to present educational programs and workshops to boards and management teams to build awareness and understanding of critical strategic challenges. These educational programs have been particularly helpful to organizations in establishing a base framework upon which to build organizational focus for addressing challenges critical to their success.

For information, please call John Hill, partner, at (502) 814-1185, or David Miller, partner, at (502) 814-1188.

Speaker's Bureau

Healthcare Strategy Group consultants are available to present on a wide array of topics related to strategic planning, physician/hospital alignment, and physician practice performance.

For information and to request a speaker for your group, please call Leslie Robinson-Smith, senior consultant, at (502) 814-1190.

Physician Resource Planner

We offer the Physician Resource Planner for those organizations that wish to develop in-house capabilities in physician manpower planning. The Physician Resource Planner is a web-based toolkit, offering a comprehensive methodology for developing a needs analysis. It includes a workbook with four manpower models, an age analysis tool, an online physician survey, interview guides to help you collect qualitative information and a complete physician inventory. Available on an annual subscription basis, Physician Resource Planner is augmented by eight hours of consulting support as needed.

For more information and to schedule a web demonstration, call Leslie Robinson-Smith, senior consultant/product manager Physician Resource Planner, at (502) 814-1190.

Planning & Financial Tools

Healthcare Strategy Group offers a variety of web-based planning and financial tools to support physician manpower planning and recruitment and its related financial resource needs projections and management. These tools are soon to be available on an annual subscription basis, and include:

• Physician Needs Analysis Workbook calculates physician FTE needs by specialty across 4 manpower models, adjusted to reflect prevalence of illness within the local community and technology advancements. The workbook also provides a medical staff age analysis for use in succession planning.
• Recruitment Plan Impact Summary, projects hospital bottom-line impact of the recruitment plan, for years one, two, and three of the recruitment plan.
• Financial Impact of Potential Retirements, calculates hospital dollars at risk, by age cohort and specialty, and highlights immediate and long-term concerns.
• Specialty Proformas for most specialties, for use in determining potential subsidies for physician recruits. These are comprehensive proformas that walk users through the development of revenue, expense, capital, and volume projections.
• Subsidy Reconciliation Workbook, for use in managing the financial agreements of the subsidy agreement.

For information about the financial tools, please call Matt Fulton, senior consultant, at (502) 814-1191.

For information about the physician needs analysis tools, please call Leslie Robinson-Smith, senior consultant/product manager Physician Resource Planner, at (502) 814-1190.