Hospitals and communities don't need more physicians than HMOs currently require.
In an article in the March 1995 Health Care Strategic Management, titled "Physician resource planning must keep pace with evolving markets," health care consultants Richard J. Lohkamp, Ph.D., and H.J. Simmons III presented a set of physician need rates for the more than 30 medical specialties that constitute the typical medical staff for a general community hospital. Since publishing that article, the consulting firm of Longshore+Simmons has used those need rates to help hospitals in several states develop physician resource plans. That experience and subsequent research have led Lohkamp to update his findings and conclusions, and he shares them here.
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Longshore+Simmons, Conshohocken, PA, USA.
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