Summer seasonal surges are colliding with physician, NP, and PA shortages. Health systems that treat workforce planning as capacity planning can protect access even when staffing is constrained.

Hospitals today are far more than acute care facilities - they are integrated health systems providing outpatient services, rehabilitation, specialty care, diagnostics, and a broad range of ancillary services across entire communities.

While sometimes patient leakage is just a result of patient choice, often the issue lies with employed or contracted physicians referring patients for services outside the network.