Staffing Your MRI Center - Coaching

Guide to Staffing Your In-Office MRI - MRI Consultant Coaching Module #15

MRI Center Staffing

In this MRI Consultant Coaching Module, we will discuss the following vital points on Staffing your MRI Center;

Are you an existing Medical Practice Group (or ASC) adding MRI, IDTF, or other?
Type, Age, and make of MRI Magnet you will be implementing: Manufacturer name, new/refurbished, Extremity, 1.5T, 3.0 T.
Review the number of MRI scans you anticipate performing per year.
Review the breakdown of the MRI scan groupings you anticipate performing per year: MRI only, MRI with Contrast, MRI with and Without Contrast. (Ok if you do not know)
Review, Discuss Estimate of number of MRI scan hours in a year.
Review and discuss how to estimate staffing requirements for Front Office and MRI Technologists. Full-time, Part-time, PRN.
How many days, hours per week, and weeks per year do you anticipate being open?
In what community will your MRI Imaging Center be located?
Discuss the prevailing community wage for MRI Technologists and Front Office Personnel in your community. Will your employment package offer monies similar to and consistent with the prevailing community wage?
Discuss Staffing and Service Delivery Models: Patient Check-in and Check-out at the Medical Practice Front Desk, Separate MRI Center Entity patient Check-in and Check-out process. Front Office staff members check in and outpatients, take them to the locker room, and provide gowns, locker keys, Technologist Scans, patient instructions, and education.
How to find and retain High-Quality MRI Technologists and Front Office Personnel.
Employee job descriptions.
Hiring a Center Manager or not, and why not?

*We will be prepared to answer any questions that you might have regarding this area of MRI project work.

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