About Us
We Know Emergency Medicine
NEED Physicians LLC was founded by seasoned healthcare executives and emergency physicians with decades of experience and deep knowledge of the mechanics and dynamics of running Emergency Departments efficiently and productively. Headquartered in Boston, NEED specializes in placing top-tier emergency physicians at hospitals across New England to cover patient surges and open shifts. NEED Physicians is also the exclusive distributor and value-added reseller for physician scheduling leader MetricAid ™ in the United States.
At NEED we understand that staffing and creating schedules for emergency departments can be challenging. The ebbs and flows of patient visits can put pressure on ED Chiefs and staffing directors who need to maintain quality care delivery while publishing schedules that meet physician wellness goals and demonstrate equitable shift distribution. When gaps in coverage emerge, NEED fills them with physicians that have the right experience and cultural fit.
ACCESS TO TOP-TIER EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS
Intermittent staffing requires the right physician-hospital match from the start; there is no time for trial-and-error. Our extensive Discovery Process documents all aspects of emergency medicine, including: culture, case mix, patient volume, workflows and technologies.
We recruit the best and brightest emergency specialists from leading medical schools and residency programs, as well as physicians with experience at top-tier hospitals and academic medical centers. Our unique approach enables hospitals to utilize physicians they might not ordinarily be able to access.
Through referrals and recommendations, our team personally vets emergency physicians to confirm that they have the skills, credentials, certifications and experience to help hospitals achieve their goals.
SCHEDULES THAT ACCOMPLISH MULTIPLE GOALS
Creating and managing physician schedules are some of the most challenging aspects of running an Emergency Department. Accommodating preferences to accomplish physician wellness goals; allocating shifts equitably; and being able to transparently demonstrate shift distribution are important factors in generating department schedules. COVID added another set of variables to the mix — the need to remove providers who had fallen hill, or needing to suddenly staff a brand-new testing site — put strains on an already complicated process.
NEED has joined forces with MetricAid to make an intelligent hybrid scheduling platform available to Emergency Departments in the United States. As MetricAid’s exclusive U.S. partner, NEED helps simplify the scheduling process through MetricAid’s solution which combines the knowledge of experienced schedulers with the efficiency and scalability of its proprietary technology.
NEED provides hospitals and healthcare centers with next-generation scheduling solutions as well as top quality physicians on an intermittent basis to ensure complete and efficient scheduling, physician wellness, continuity of patient care and revenue preservation.
LEADERSHIP
Ken Wolfe, CEO
Ken Wolfe is a leading entrepreneur in healthcare operations. Prior to founding NEED Physicians, Ken was the founder and CEO of Edaris Health, an innovator of electronic documentation solutions for emergency departments based on technology developed at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston.
Mr. Wolfe was also a founding partner of Kairos Partners I, II, III, a $150 million limited partnership investing in growth-oriented medical technologies. He also served as a Managing Director and head of the Global Private Placement Group at Morgan Stanley in New York.
Steve Grosse, M.D., Director, Business Development
Dr. Steven Grosse is a senior clinician responsible for NEED’s business development efforts. He is also the Program Director for NEED’s Emergency Medicine Physician Assistants (EMPA) program.
Dr. Grosse is board certified in Emergency Medicine and works as an Associated Physician of Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Saint Vincent Medical Center.
Michael Roshon, M.D., PhD Director, Client Solutions
Dr. Michael Roshon is a leading senior clinician who provides insight and first-hand user perspective for the design of effective client solutions for emergency physicians.
Dr. Roshon is currently Medical Director for the emergency department of the St. Francis Medical Center in Colorado Springs, and serves on the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) National Reimbursement Committee and the ACEP Research Committee.
Kintu Shah, Director, IT Operations
Kintu Shah has over 20 years of experience in healthcare technology — designing, developing, implementing and supporting numerous applications, including integrating healthcare records.
Mr. Shah has worked on in-house, proprietary and cloud-hosted systems.in diverse environments such as labs, blood banks, radiology, pathology, and phlebotomy as well as inpatient and outpatient clinical settings.
