Recruiting and staffing

Episode 40: Shift Your Paradigm to Achieve Physician Retention w/ Tammy Hager

Physician retention is quickly becoming the newest facet to join the crisis of healthcare in America.

From doctors choosing a career path at a young age only to find out it wasn’t the right path for them to physician burnout all across the nation in the aftermath of covid, turnover among physicians and medical staff is a growing problem.

Enter Tammy Hager, Executive Director of Physician Recruitment and Privileging at Surgical Affiliates Management Group, Inc., whose organization boasts a 96% retention rate – well above the national average. How do they do it? Is it inflated salaries, cushy retirement packages, or state of the art data collection? Turns out, the real answer might be in relationships and in listening to medicinal professionals about what they want.

Join us as we discuss:

What questions to ask medical staff to keep them on board
Finding balance in work/life
How the big organizations are following suit

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Recruiting and staffing

Episode 38: The Future of Healthcare Staffing & the Importance of Locum Tenens

You’ve probably been treated by a Locum Tenens physician and didn’t even realize it! Locum tenens is a Latin phrase that means temporarily taking the place of another.

While labor shortages can happen throughout professions, this can be catastrophic within hospitals and clinics. This is where an organization like NALTO can step in and assist with staffing.

Jarin Dana, CFO Fusion Healthcare Staffing and Matt Young, President of NALTO & COO of All Star Healthcare join us today to discuss Locum Tenens and the reality of labor shortages within the healthcare system.

Episode 37: Making a Broad Impact Through Population Health

To solve some of the thornier problems in healthcare—challenges like providing access, combating misinformation, and ensuring equitable outcomes—we need data.

That’s where population health comes into play. It’s a science that combines clinical care with data to improve the care of large swaths of people all at once.

Dr. Chirag Patel, Vice President Population Health at Centene, joins the show to explain the impact population health is having on a variety of areas. Plus, we chat about other hot topics in healthcare.

We discuss:

The practice and impact of population health
Making a difference in women’s health and medicaid
The challenge of labor shortages and access to healthcare
How individuals can make an impact in healthcare

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Recruiting and staffing

Episode 35: Healthcare’s Biggest Struggle: Clinician Shortage and How to Overcome w/ Christy Ricks

Episode 35: Healthcare's Biggest Struggle: Clinician Shortage and How to Overcome w/ Christy Ricks

Staffing shortages are plaguing industries across the country—especially healthcare.

Rising rates of burnout and early retirements are only complicating the issue.

As Assistant Vice President of Provider Recruitment at LifePoint Health, Christy Bray Ricks confronts this challenge everyday.

In this episode, she shares some strategies to combat it. Plus, we talk about the underlying causes of this problem and the systemic changes that need to happen to address it.

We discuss:

The scope of provider recruitment
Strategies to meet the growing demand for healthcare
What needs to change to fix the system
How to ensure continuity of care

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COVID-19, Recruiting and staffing, Vaccines

Episode 22: Focusing on Positivity & Optimism in Challenging Times

Medical staff have been put through the ringer over the last year. Hospital systems have experienced economic challenges, a reduction in workforce, and of course, the continuing challenges related to COVID.

With all that is going on, keeping morale high might seem like a gargantuan task.

In this episode, Jordan Voigt, President, Genesis Medical Center – Davenport, talks about how his team instituted an initiative around positivity and optimism, and how it resulted in improved levels of happiness, despite these challenging times.

We discuss:

Investing in the personal happiness of medical center staff
How a focus on optimism influenced the center during COVID
Strategies for recruitment and retention
The challenges of vaccine mandates

Check out these resources we mentioned during the podcast:

The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor
Orange Frog Organizations

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Recruiting and staffing, Technology

Episode 12: Demystifying Healthcare Recruiting: Finding Heroes

Every new technology comes with the fear that it will make a job obsolete.

With healthcare recruiting, that fear was sparked by fax, email and internet job boards…

But the news of the recruiter’s demise has been greatly exaggerated.

One need only look to Paul Olzak, Medical Staff Development Officer at Lake Health, to know that this is true. He joins me in the latest Heroes of Healthcare to explain what being a healthcare recruiter means in the modern world.

We discuss:

How to attract the best talent in healthcare
How recruiter outreach and internet search are evolving in the healthcare talent pool
How recruiters help each other succeed

Heroes of Healthcare is hosted by Ted Weyn. To hear this interview and more like it, subscribe to Heroes of Healthcare on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.