Potential Stakeholders


Stakeholders may be identified for how they are affected by a change, their role in decision-making in the facility, their skills (administrative, data analysis, informatics), or their investment in the change. While many suggestions are listed to help you think through who may need to be involved in your team, be selective. Suggestions are listed alphabetically under the headers.

Leadership:

  • Executive management (CEO, CFO, COO, CIO)
  • Academics (Dean of Students, Student Health Medical Director)

Advisory:

  • Ethics committee
  • Internal review board
  • Antimicrobial stewardship
  • Risk management

Facility incident management:

Business management/non-medical:

  • Billing and coding
  • Case management
  • Communications/media relations/public affairs
  • Community outreach
  • Finance
  • Human resources (HR)
  • Resource pool
  • Volunteer services
  • Social work
  • Front desk

Facility:

  • Blood bank
  • Food services
  • Housekeeping
  • Industrial engineering
  • Informatics
  • Electronic health record (EHR)
  • Information technology (IT)
  • Materials management

Local:

  • Elected officials
  • EMS, fire and rescue
  • Health care coalition
  • Law enforcement
  • Public works
  • Unions

Public health:

  • Director of health and nursing leadership
  • Federal agencies
  • Local/regional public health office
  • Public health laboratory leadership
  • State epidemiologist
  • State ethics

Medicine, non-surgical (adult and pediatric):

  • Adolescent medicine
  • Allergy
  • Alternative medicine
  • Ambulance
  • Anesthesiology
  • Burn center
  • Cardiology
  • Critical care
  • Cytopathology
  • Dentistry
  • Dermatology
  • Diabetes
  • Endocrinology
  • Gastroenterology
  • Genetics and genomics
  • Geriatric medicine
  • Global health
  • Healthcare epidemiology
  • Hematology
  • Hospice
  • Immunology
  • Infection control
  • Infectious disease
  • Intensive care
  • Metabolism
  • Microbiology
  • Nephrology
  • Neurology
  • Nuclear medicine
  • Nutrition
  • Obstetrics and gynecology
  • Occupational health
  • Oncology
  • Ophthalmology
  • Otolaryngology
  • Pain care
  • Palliative Care
  • Pharmacology
  • Pulmonology
  • Respiratory therapy
  • Rheumatology
  • Sports medicine
  • Transplant
  • Trauma
  • Urology

Medicine, surgical
(adult and pediatric):

  • Ambulatory surgery
  • Cardiac surgery
  • General surgery
  • Gynecologic surgery
  • Orthopedic surgery
  • Oncological surgery
  • Neurosurgery
  • OR staff (surgeons, anesthesiology, CRNA, OR nurse, circulating nurse, surgical tech, residents, medical students, physician assistant, medical device company representative)
  • Pediatric surgery
  • Reconstructive and plastic surgery
  • Thoracic surgery
  • Vascular surgery
  • Oncological surgery
  • Neurosurgery
  • OR staff (surgeons, anesthesiology, CRNA, OR nurse, circulating nurse, surgical tech, residents, medical students, physician assistant, medical device company representative)
  • Pediatric surgery
  • Reconstructive and plastic surgery
  • Thoracic surgery
  • Vascular surgery

Mental health:

  • Addiction
  • Counseling
  • Psychiatry

Therapy and rehabilitation:

  • Allied health
  • Rehabilitation
  • Physical therapy
  • Occupational therapy

Populations:

  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
  • Cystic fibrosis
  • Developmental disabilities
  • Memory disorders/dementia/memory care
  • Neonatal
  • Progressive care
  • Transplant

Locations/settings:

  • Pharmacy
  • Laboratory
  • Ambulatory center
  • Dialysis
  • Family practice
  • Home health
  • Primary care
  • Urgent care
  • Skilled nursing

Other individuals:

  • Medical students
  • Visitors
  • Device company representatives

Influential documents: