The Hospital Executive's Guide to Physician Staffing

This book helps hospital executives determine how many physicians are needed. Insightful and data-rich, this unique resource guides you in creating a staffing model for physician services by outlining proven strategies for determining community physician need and fulfilling those needs appropriately.

This timely and informative book presents practical approaches for engaging different types of physicians - the hospital dependent, hospital independent, and full-time office-based - in various markets, including those facing a shortage and rural communities. Includes benchmarking tables and other resources.

• Physician supply and demand - a macro view
• Assessing physician need
• Measuring physician contribution
• How many physicians make a health system
• Recruitment and retention strategies
• The executive's role in recruitment
• Planning for an uncertain future
• Softbound, 2009, published by Health Leaders Media