Impact analysis and medical manpower planning.

The impact analysis at St. Joseph's Hospital forms a integral part of the long range financial planning perspective and reflects the hospital's commitment to the provision of quality patient care and to the mandate of ensuring that resources are employed in an effective and efficient manner. Medical staff acceptance of the program indicates that they recognize the value and the necessity of the impact analysis as an important part of medical manpower planning, even though it impinges on the historical role of the chief of the department in the recruitment of new medical staff. Although the process described is of particular relevance to teaching hospitals, the implications are also important to any community hospital which is trying to use its scarce resources to provide the best possible service to its community.