title: Hospitals and medical staffs: the concept of planning takes on new meaning.
abstract: Broad trends in health care are redefining medical staff planning. Hospital CEOs are recognizing the critical need to involve their physicians in hospital strategic planning at many levels. Gone are the days when it was sufficient to invite medical staff members to annual planning retreats and add individual physicians to boards; hospitals that thrive in the 1990s will be those that have created strong strategic links with their physicians. At the same time, medical staff development planning is changing in important ways. Recent federal government alerts on fraud and abuse and inurement in physician-recruiting activities are leading hospitals to document community benefit in their recruitment efforts. And hospital executives now realize that changes in the physician market will require them to plan carefully in order to ensure a strong base of primary care and other much-needed physicians. These two trends present CEOs with multilayered challenges. Following are reports on what leading-edge hospitals are doing in both areas.
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Koska
mesh_terms: D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D006752:Hospital Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010934:Planning Techniques; D014481:United States