BUILDING BLOCKS OF A HIGH-PERFORMING HOSPICE MEDICAL STAFF
- Create full-time “blended” practice opportunities that attract and retain HPM physicians
- Develop bench strength to account for volume fluctuations, departures, back-up coverage
- Amass “intellectual capital” for an infrastructure that supports an effective and efficient medical staff
- Deploy hybrid compensation models to align physician and hospice incentives, and reassess at least annually
- Maintain relentless focus on capturing information on physician activity to provide timely and constructive feedback and aid performance management
- Clearly articulate expectations among medical staff practitioners, medical leadership, and hospice management
- Create virtual organizational structure to extend influence of medical staff into greater community to reduce fragmentation of late-life care
- Foster an unswerving commitment to performance improvements to minimize inappropriate practice variation, reduce regulatory risk, and win the confidence of referring sources