“Blount Memorial Hospital has worked with AmeriMed Consulting since 2000. We have had multiple evaluations of our medical staff and community needs to make recommendations to our Hospital Board for recruitment packages. We have found that their processes are very thorough and very accurate. It has been intriguing to me as a physician to see how AmeriMed also incorporates specific diagnoses and disease processes prevalent in an area. We have found them very prompt, with very thorough documentation of their processes and findings. They have also been very helpful when we have had sudden changes in our medical staff. Please contact me if you would like to discuss my experiences with AmeriMed over the last six years.”

“AmeriMed exceeded all of St. Bernardine's requirements and put together a very detailed 5-year plan that will ensure the communities that we support and our medical staff have the needed number of specialty and primary care physicians for the future of the hospital and the community. St. Bernardine Medical Center is pleased to have worked with AmeriMed and would recommend them to any facility looking to develop a very detailed Medical Staff Development Plan. ”

“On at least three occasions, ETMC Jacksonville has contracted with AmeriMed Consulting to prepare a medical staff development plan to assist with our physician recruitment program. We worked with several representatives from the firm and provided them with community demographics and medical services data that they used to prepare very factual, informative and helpful Strategic Plans. These have greatly assisted us to know how many physicians and in what medical specialties we should focus our recruiting efforts.

“Being located in rural East Texas in a small community, we did not have the expertise inhouse, nor access to the data and information that AmeriMed accesses on a regular basis, and thus we could not develop the elaborate, detailed and structured plan that they are able to do. The Medical Staff Strategic Plans they have developed for ETMC Jacksonville have provided valuable information, identifying the number of general practice physicians and specialty physicians we needed to recruit to our community to help us plan for a successful future, meeting the medical services needs of our community and the immediate area.”

“AmeriMed completed two assignments for our facility – a survey of our medical society and a hybrid medical staff development plan tailored to our needs and to our budget. The expertise and knowledge of the firm’s consultants created a great deal of credibility with our physicians. The plan demonstrated a quantified, articulated approach to staffing that helps build our initial justification for recruitment. I believe the plan would serve us well should it become necessary to defend our recruitment position.

“The data presented certainly met my expectations and those of my vice president. We appreciated AmeriMed’s willingness to modify their approach to fit our needs. Overall, the attitude, professionalism, and timeliness of the firm was topnotch. I am happy to provide them with a very favorable reference.”

“We contracted with AmeriMed Consulting to provide us with a five year medical staff development plan, which they completed in strict accordance with agreed upon deadlines. The two facets of their service that most impressed me were the expertise and dedication of their consultants and the quality of the plan itself. AmeriMed’s product is the most detailed, concise, and well conceived medical staff plan I have seen in the industry, and we have used a number of vendors. Frankly, such plans often are incomplete or half-baked, which was not the case with AmeriMed.

“I was particularly impressed with AmeriMed’s attention to detail. We needed to know how many of our medical staff were full-time, how many part-time, and how many split time between us and other facilities. AmeriMed’s consultants did a meticulous job of contacting physicians to accurately determine their status, which was important to the credibility of the plan. They then made recommendations regarding the type and number of specialists they believed we needed. We ran these recommendations by our key primary care leaders who agreed with them exactly. “At a time when physician/hospital relations are coming under increasingly government focus, particularly here in California, it is important to have the back-up of a sound, well-conceived medical staff plan. I can recommend AmeriMed’s process and it’s people highly for this task.”

“AmeriMed Consulting has developed a reputation for knowledge and credibility among in-house hospital medical staffing professionals through presentations they have made before the American Society of Physician Recruiters and through the staff development articles its consultants have written. We selected them based on their reputation and we were not disappointed. Their consultants offer a wealth of expertise and are truly a valuable resource.

“The Firm produced a medical staff development plan for us that diverged somewhat from their template but which met our particular needs. It was thoroughly done and completed in a timely manner. We now use it as our basis for physician recruitment and informally refer to it as “the bible.” “We received exactly what we expected from AmeriMed Consulting at a price which I believe was equitable. It was a great benefit to have their third party expertise and I have been enthusiastic in recommending them to others, including our own corporate system.”

“In working with AmeriMed Consulting, I have found that they provide the most comprehensive and thorough medical staff plan that I have seen in the industry. One thing I appreciate as a physician, and that the physicians on our staff also appreciate, is that their recommendations are not based on theoretical abstractions, but on solid, common sense. The data they choose to examine – demographic changes, changes in volumes, disease incidence, the make-up of our stall – all lead logically to their conclusions. The data and the rationale for recommendations stand up well to the scrutiny of our physicians.

“We put this data to practical use in setting the incentive packages that we offer to recruit physicians and to justify our physician recruitment strategies. However, service areas are subject to change, so we ask AmeriMed to conduct a comprehensive medical staff plan every three years. In addition, in intervening years they review the plan and may provide other services, such as interviewing our physicians or conducting community surveys. “They have provided us with sound information enabling us to make timely, proactive staffing decisions. I am always happy to recommend Amerimed.”

“As a non-for-profit hospital, we are required to demonstrate an objective need for additional physicians. We needed a consulting firm that could both assemble and present a credible analysis of our staffing needs and develop a staffing plan that we could use to make outgoing decisions. “AmeriMed’s consultants were very timely, effective, and cooperative in achieving this goal. They were able to establish rapport and trust with our medical staff and were able to obtain all the relevant data we required to assess our staffing needs. This included an examination of our overall community and our current medical staff.

“We now have a document that is both credible to our physicians and which can confirm to the government our physician recruiting requirements. In addition, this is a plan that we use continuously to make a wide range of staffing and other decisions. When the need arises to update this plan, we will certainly engage AmeriMed again.”

“We examined a variety of medical staff planning models when we put out our request for proposals, and in reviewing the options available, we determined that AmeriMed Consulting delivers the most comprehensive and detailed product on the market. “The firm provided us with an extremely thorough, well researched, five-year medical staff assessment and development plan. In addition to assembling a wide range of data, AmeriMed’s consultants displayed excellent communications skills during their on-site interviews with our physicians. They were able to enlist our physicians’ cooperation and obtain from them important information regarding their own practices and the recruiting needs they see in our service area.

“The resulting document has been very useful from a strategic planning perspective. In addition, it has been vital in enabling us to create competitive physician recruiting incentive packages. Using the information in the plan, we are able to justify the recruiting incentives we are offering to physicians based on community need. We were very satisfied with AmeriMed and have enthusiastically recommended them to others.”