Understanding the Financial Strain on Modern Hospitals

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal says it all, “Hospitals and health systems are facing myriad financial challenges that threaten access to care and services that patients and communities rely on.” Becker’s Hospital CFO Report says the average cash on hand for systems fell 28% from January 2022 through June 2023. Modern hospitals…

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Overworked and Overstressed: How Healthcare Professionals Can Find Peace Through Mindfulness

Overworked and Overstressed: How Healthcare Professionals Can Find Peace Through Mindfulness

Healthcare burnout reached a peak in 2023. One survey showed burnout stretching across job descriptions; 54% of clinical staff and 46% of non-clinical staff reported these symptoms. The healthcare profession commits to caring for others. However, the demands and pressures of the job can lead to healthcare professionals experiencing high levels of stress and burnout.…

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The Key to Resolving High Turnover and Protracted Hiring Cycles In Healthcare

Streamline Healthcare Recruitment: The Key to Resolving High Turnover and Protracted Hiring Cycles

In the increasingly competitive healthcare environment, improving your organizations recruitment practices is an essential. One way to optimizing your practices from top to bottom is to work with a healthcare staffing firm. Staffing firms are at forefront of transforming practices and empowering healthcare organizations to flourish. Here, we will discuss how healthcare facilities grappling with…

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How to Be a Great Physician Leader & Mistakes to Avoid

How to Be a Great Physician Leader & Mistakes to Avoid MedSource Consultants

Most doctors are intelligent and highly skilled. They’ve spent years learning their craft. However, we often look to these knowledge workers to lead teams or even our organizations. Having doctors’ voices on a leadership team is undeniably valuable to an organization. The problem comes when these physicians, who are highly skilled medically, have difficulty transitioning…

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Bigger is Not Always Better: The Advantage of Working with a Boutique Healthcare Staffing Agency

Talent shortages in healthcare pose serious issues for the facilities and their patients.  So when a key hire is imperative and internal talent acquisition has not been able to provide the candidates, healthcare companies turn to the professional staffing industry.   Options are plenty when it comes to choosing a healthcare staffing agency and bigger doesn’t…

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How the Family Physician Market is Evolving

In healthcare, change is constant. This includes the evolution of the candidate and job market for clinical and non-clinical teams. The primary care market has been particularly turned on its ear over the past several years. It’s long been noted that PCPs are a significant source of referral revenue for specialty providers. Over time, as…

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Is Your Physician Burnout Impacting Patient Experience?

Provider burnout has reached staggering levels and there is plenty of data that suggests this is a major contributing factor to negative patient experiences. As providers encounter more job stressors, quality care wanes. It would make sense that the fatigue these physicians feel contributes to patient frustration and lowered satisfaction scores.  But is the correlation…

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The Must-Have Checklist for Physician Employment Contracts

The physician contracting process involves many steps in order to get it right.  We’ve made a  checklist of the must-have elements that standardize the process to ensure that both the organization and the hired clinician are protected. Key Pieces of a Physician Contract The basic physician contract covers the employment status of a physician. Some…

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