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NewsRecruiting during a physician shortage: Play up mission
Challenged to find physicians, a 24-bed hospital in southwest rural Kansas found a way to recruit doctors--through a reverse-recruitment model. Ashland Health Clinic, with a city population of 855 Read more...
Boost marketing, training programs to recruit physicians
A shortage of physicians forced 34 percent of New York hospitals to reduce or eliminate services in the past two years, while 66 percent had to transfer emergency patients because of insufficient Read more...
How to handle aging physicians
With a national physician shortage and growing numbers of insured patients coming down the pike, hospitals are facing the conflict of hanging onto their physicians who are growing older while Read more...
Hospitals adding urgent care clinics to relieve overcrowding, doc shortage
Hospitals trying to ease strained emergency rooms (ERs) and to overcome a lack of primary care physicians are embracing urgent care centers, report Kaiser Health News and USA Today. They increasingly Read more...
Older candidates untapped resource amid doc shortage
Older physician candidates with more experience may be overlooked as hospital employers and recruiters aim to fill positions amid a looming shortage. In a recent Medicus Firm survey, 28.6 percent of Read more...
Hospitals use more NPs, PAs amid doc shortage
With some hospitals struggling to fill a physician void, more institutions are turning to nurse practitioners (NP) and physician assistants (PA) for a solution. In fact, hospital outpatient visits Read more...
Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Southwestern Vermont partner in care coordination
New Hampshire-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health (D-HH) and Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC) have agreed to form a multi-specialty physician group together, the former announced last week. Read more...
Med school applications hit record high
In what the healthcare experts hope will be the answer to the national physician shortage, medical school applications have hit an all-time high this year, according to the Association of the Read more...
Reform calls for more administrative support, not clinicians
As hospitals prepare for an additional 16 million newly insured patients in 2014, new research in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests they should be concentrating on adding more support Read more...
Combine internal, external recruitment efforts
As the physician shortage continues to plague hospitals around the country, many institutions find themselves wondering what the best method of recruitment is--outside resources such as staffing Read more...
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