Tip 14:
Do You Have Enough Clinicians to Care for Your Community?
Regularly assess your staffing levels. You may need to hire additional primary care clinicians when:
+ There are more than 8,000 annual outpatient visits per full-time equivalent primary care physician on your staff
+ There is excessive usage of emergency room facilities for routine primary care
+ Appointment waiting time for routine health services is more than 7 days for established patients, or more than 14 days for new patients
+ Waiting-room time is longer than 1 hour for patients who have appointments or 2 hours where patients are treated on a first-come, first-served basis
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Chart Note
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Check the pulse of your clinic regularly–don’t let a shortage of clinicians reach a crisis stage when it comes to providing care for your community.
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Healthy Move
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Most residency programs end on or around July 1. Focus your efforts from the beginning of summer through fall to catch clinicians looking for jobs.
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