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Annual Benchmarking Report Provides Industry Data from Internal Physician and Provider Recruitment Professionals
OKEMOS, Mich., Oct. 24, 2023 — The Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR) has released its annual Internal Physician and Provider Recruitment Benchmarking Report, highlighting the increasing physician shortage in the United States and the impact on recruiting and hiring. The report found organizations are searching for more physicians than ever before amid historic labor shortages for the second consecutive year.
More than 150 member health organizations of AAPPR, the leading authority in the physician and provider recruitment to retention continuum, participated in the extensive annual research study representing more than 19,000 searches, 60 percent of which were specific to physicians. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects about 24,200 openings for physicians and surgeons each year, on average, over the decade, meaning the data from AAPPR’s Benchmarking Report represents close to half of all physician searches in the United States.
The report, which provides industry data to help in-house recruitment professionals in workforce planning and growth management, found that active physician searches per year have more than doubled since 2017. Data also shows that 2022 marked the fifth straight year in which the percentage of searches filled decreased, as the demand for physicians remains competitive and labor remains scarce.
“While the data from this year’s survey is not surprising, it does highlight a concerning trend for the entire healthcare industry and a need for collaboration within our industry to address the growing challenges in physician and provider recruitment,” said Carey Goryl, CEO of AAPPR. “For the fifth year in a row, we are seeing less and less open physician positions being filled despite the number of active searches increasing. This starkly highlights the depth of the physician and provider shortage our country is facing. Every day these positions remain open, is a day patients aren’t being seen and revenue is lost.”
The report did highlight some reassuring progress in the healthcare staffing landscape. For the first time in four years, the number of physician searches to replace departing physicians declined from 48 percent in 2021 to 44 percent in 2022, suggesting more physicians stayed with their organizations in 2022 rather than sought new opportunities.
Other notable report findings include:
The industry-level data in AAPPR’s Benchmarking Survey helps recruitment professionals and departments establish target productivity levels, set goals and expectations, and grow their teams.
Organizations that participate in the annual survey gain free access to AAPPR’s benchmarking portal where they can run custom benchmark comparisons to other organizations and departments similar to their own. The benchmarking portal includes time to fill and compensation calculators and enables users to compare a range of data, including organizational profiles, search information, recruiter profile data, and recruiter compensation figures, helping them make more informed decisions.
The complete 2023 AAPPR Internal Physician and Provider Recruitment Benchmarking Report is available to organizations for sale online. To order, visit https://aappr.org/research/benchmarking/.
About The Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR)
The Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR) is a nationally recognized leader in health care provider recruitment, onboarding, and retention. For more than 30 years, AAPPR has empowered physician and advanced practice provider recruitment leaders to transform care delivery in their communities by providing best-in-class practices, up-to-date industry knowledge, and evolving innovative approaches for hiring, onboarding, and retaining exceptional clinical talent. To learn more or to become an organizational member of AAPPR, please visit https://aappr.org/join-now.
As the national physician shortage continues, demand for physician and provider talent is only expected to grow, giving physicians who are unsatisfied with their working conditions the opportunity to find a similar role with a competing organization.
In fact, AAPPR’s 2022 report on increased provider turnover shows one in three physicians and nearly one in two advanced practice providers (APPs) have departed their employer for a similar position elsewhere. Despite this trend, more than 75% of survey respondents say their organization does not have a formal retention program in place.
With ongoing physician shortages, a recruitment strategy isn’t enough to keep your organization staffed, and it’s critical that your workforce planning strategy prioritizes retaining the high-quality talent you already have. To ensure retention remains a top priority and minimize turnover, we recommend implementing a formal retention program. Here are five things to consider when launching your formal retention program:
Once your organization’s retention program is developed and in place, it’s important to measure its effectiveness and analyze if there is any room for improvement. One way you can measure this is by comparing your previous turnover rate to your present one. Surveying physicians on factors that often drive turnover, including burnout, level of work-life balance and overall job satisfaction, can also help guide the program and identify opportunities for improvement.
As competition for clinical talent continues to dramatically rise, investing in a formal retention program will bring your organization long-term benefits including reduced turnover and increased retention of top talent, while creating a work environment that demonstrates you are an employer of choice.
OKEMOS, Mich., Aug. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR), the leading authority on physician recruitment, onboarding and retention, has added three new corporate partners for 2023: M3 | Healthcare Talent Solutions as a Signature Partner, and Locumsmart and NEJM CareerCenter as Strategic Partners.
AAPPR launched its Partner program in 2017 to create richer connections between physician and provider recruitment professionals, the organizations they represent and the vendor companies they rely on to effectively recruit, onboard and retain talent.
These partnerships create a direct line of feedback for members to communicate their challenges and identify solutions that better fit recruitment professionals’ needs amid the ongoing physician shortage in North America.
AAPPR has added one new Signature Partner, which is the organization’s highest and most industrious Partner level:
In addition, new Strategic Partners, which further support AAPPR’s mission to address the challenging and complex nature of physician and provider recruiting, onboarding, and retention, include:
“AAPPR’s Signature and Strategic Partners play an important role in our effort to advance the physician and provider recruitment profession,” said Carey Goryl, CEO of AAPPR. “These partners help provide our members with high quality education, resources and connections that drive successful workforce strategies and support AAPPR in our mission to best serve our members so they can best serve their organizations and patients in their communities.”
Each partnership is tailored to fulfill the company’s unique business objectives and marketing goals. AAPPR Signature and Strategic Partners receive invaluable visibility with over 2,000 AAPPR members, including sourcing, recruiting, contracting, credentialing, certifying and onboarding professionals, who play critical roles in influencing the advancement of their health care systems.
AAPPR will work with these three companies, along with its existing partners, to support the organization’s mission of advancing health care recruitment and improving patient care by empowering physician and provider recruitment professionals with high quality education, resources and connections, so they can best serve their communities.
For more information about AAPPR or their Partner program visit www.aappr.org or email info@aappr.org.
About The Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR)
The Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR) is a nationally recognized leader in health care provider recruitment, onboarding, and retention. For more than 30 years, AAPPR has empowered physician and advanced practice provider recruitment leaders to transform care delivery in their communities by providing best-in-class practices, up-to-date industry knowledge, and evolving innovative approaches for hiring, onboarding, and retaining exceptional clinical talent. To learn more or to become an organizational member of AAPPR, please visit https://aappr.org/join-now.
OKEMOS, MI – The Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR), the leading authority of physician recruitment and retention, is celebrating the first group of members to complete its Certified Physician/Provider Recruitment Professional Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (CPRP-DEI) certification. The certification program was launched during the AAPPR Annual Conference in April 2022.
The course, which has been peer reviewed by fellow physician and provider recruiters and approved by the AAPPR Board of Directors, provides an advanced certification for those already holding a current CPRP certification. Through this curriculum, AAPPR is working to give recruiters the tools they need to create a more diverse and inclusive environment in their organizations.
“We recognize the need for providing relevant and actionable learning opportunities to further the cause for social justice and equality in health care and our world,” said AAPPR CEO Carey Goryl, MSW, CAE. “After completing the program, participants can demonstrate skills and leadership proficiency in diversity recruitment, further fostering a new ability to influence effective DEI and diversity recruitment strategies to support and drive systemic change.”
The following AAPPR members received their CPRP-DEI certification after completing the program:
To earn this distinction requires members to complete 3.5 hours of self-guided learning along with other instruction and then passing an exam.
The next available course for certification will be held on November 16, 2022 in Indianapolis. For more information, visit https://aappr.org/news-events/fall-in-person-courses/.
The Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR) is a nationally recognized leader in health care provider recruitment, onboarding, and retention. For more than 30 years, AAPPR has empowered physician and advanced practice provider recruitment leaders to transform care delivery in their communities by providing best-in-class practices, up-to-date industry knowledge, and evolving innovative approaches for hiring, onboarding, and retaining exceptional clinical talent. To learn more or to become an organizational member of AAPPR, please visit https://aappr.org/join-now.
Marjorie Alexander, ChenMed
David Aragon, VHA National Recruitment Service
Rebecca Blythe, Ascension St. Vincent’s
Judy Brown, GoHealth Urgent Care
Marcia Brown, Luminis Health – Anne Arundel Medical Center, Doctors Community Medical Center, J. Kent McNew
Allan Cacanindin, SSM Health
Ginger Canaday-Thompson, Holzer Health System
Felix Castro, Atrium Health
Terri Christensen
Stephanie Clay, Walmart Health
Timmy Coleman, Atrium Health
Kim Collins
Jessica Daud, Penn State Health
Aisha DeBerry, Bon Secours Mercy Health
Kim Dianich, PeaceHealth
Mark Douyard, Bayhealth Medical Center
Natasha Durham, Prisma Health
Krysta Earhart, Sparrow Health System
Logan Ebbets, Cooley Dickinson Health Care
Donna Ecclestone, Duke Health
Susanna Edmondson, Erlanger Health System
Tom Farrington, Franciscan Health
Carrie Galbraith, GoHealth Urgent Care
Armando Garza, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Fayeann Hauer
Kelley Hekowczyk, UCHealth Medical Group Administration
Joelle Hennesey, First Physicians Group/Sarasota Memorial Hospital
Audrey Hernandez, Landmark Health
Allyson Hollingsworth, Providence St. Joseph Health
Steven Jacobs, Einstein Healthcare Network
Julie Juba, University of Minnesota Physicians
Rupinder Kaur, Baptist Health Medical Group
Kaitlyn Krimmel, Ascension
Sarah Krueger, MyMichigan Health
Dennis Lewis, Baptist Health
Doug Lewis
Sarah Lipka, Geisinger Health System
Jill Little, Tenet Healthcare – DMC Medical Group
Elizabeth Madurski, UPMC
Scott Manning, District Medical Group (DMG)
Holli McConnell, Sentara Medical Group
Emerson Moses, OptumCare
Shannon Noël
Russ Peal, VHA Workforce Recruitment & Retention Service
Lynne Peterson
Elizabeth Poplawsky, Bon Secours Mercy Health
Sasha Randolph, KUMC Rural Health Education & Services
Rachel Reliford, DuPage Medical Group
Jessica Reynolds, ChenMed
Christine Ricks, LifePoint Health
Shawna Roach, Akron Children’s Hospital
Shannon Royer
Laura Screeney, NewYork-Presbyterian
Hillary Shadwick, ACCESS Family Care
Brent Shore, Inova Health System
Heather Spinney, Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital
Linda Stevenson, Atrius Health
Meagan Strawhacker
Amber Williams, University of North Carolina Health Care
Stephanie Wright, BJC Healthcare
Megan Zielinski, Mercy Clinic
The Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR) is pleased to announce the first ever Physician and Provider Recruitment Professionals Week, April 24-30, 2022, held in conjunction with the organization’s Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois. This special week will recognize the hard-working professionals serving in the field of physician and provider recruitment, and onboarding and retention for a health system, hospital, network, specialty hospital, specialty practice group or physicians’ group.
Throughout the week, AAPPR will honor recruitment professionals with special giveaways and recognition throughout the conference, social media and the website providing a public forum where recruitment professionals can share their stories and non-recruitment professionals can express support for the profession. Unique opportunities for individual recognition will occur through a peer nomination format, allowing physician and provider recruitment professionals to shine a light on a colleague who goes above and beyond or has inspired others throughout his or her career. To participate, individuals will submit a recruitment professionals name and share a story or a note of gratitude the person mentioned will receive a special gift.
“Physician and provider recruitment is a uniquely challenging field, so AAPPR really wanted to create a special week to connect these professionals and provide some well-deserved recognition,” said AAPPR CEO Carey Goryl, MSW, CAE. “AAPPR is always focused on service of its recruitment professional members, but for this week we want to actively showcase the profession, celebrate stars of the industry and make it clear how much these dedicated professionals are valued.”
Participants for the event will be encouraged to tag photos and posts during the recognition week with the hashtag #PhysicianProviderRecruitmentProfessionalsWeek or #PPRPW. Increasingly updated information will be available at a unique landing page: http://recruitmentprofessionalsweek.info/.
About The Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR)
The Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR) is a nationally recognized leader in health care provider recruitment, onboarding, and retention. For more than 30 years, AAPPR has empowered physician and advanced practice provider recruitment leaders to transform care delivery in their communities by providing best-in-class practices, up-to-date industry knowledge, and evolving innovative approaches for hiring, onboarding, and retaining exceptional clinical talent. To learn more or to become an organizational member of AAPPR, please visit https://aappr.org/join-now
A recent focus group conducted by the Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR) uncovered troubling themes of operational and physician candidate pipeline challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic and exacerbated by weary recruitment leaders and departments met with decreasing funds and limited resources. Findings from the focus group, made up of the nation’s leading physician and provider recruitment experts, are now available in AAPPR’s newly released white paper entitled: From Healthcare’s Front Lines: Industry Experts Sound Alarm on Concerning Physician Recruitment Trends in Coming Months.
The industry white paper indicates significant changes will be required to help address an already depleted and decreasing physician workforce. Industry experts suggest the research findings should serve as an imperative directive to healthcare operational leaders to maintain up-to-date recruitment market intelligence to quickly and successfully pivot both short- and long-term workforce strategies.
“The insights we received in the focus group on trends in physician recruitment in the wake of COVID-19, help shine a light on both new challenges and even some unexpected benefits,” said co-author and AAPPR CEO Carey Goryl, MSW, CAE. “It is our hope that this document may serve as a foothold to better understanding future physician recruitment cycles as competing organizations expand efforts to help stabilize an uncertain physician supply and demand market.”
Specific topics covered in the AAPPR white paper include:
“The physician recruitment industry is facing what’s being called, ‘The Great Resignation’ as an increasing number of physicians opt for early retirement citing increasing burnout and an unhealthy work/life balance and the consequences across healthcare will be significant,” said co-author and AAPPR President Emerson R. Moses, MBA, CPRP. “Today’s healthcare organization leaders need to be vigilant in reviewing and revising their onboarding and retention plans to offset continued unanticipated turnover.”
In the latest Physician and Provider Job Satisfaction and Search Report published by AAPPR, a reported 30% of physicians will retire between the ages of 60 to 65. With over one in three respondents from the report considering early retirement because of physician burnout, recruitment leaders are auditing their practices’ physician age demographics and sounding alarming fears of tenured physicians at their organizations expressing exhaustion and frustration. The national focus group also concurred with an earlier survey report that of over half of physician respondents in the market survey (56.72%) are considering or have considered changing employers.
For a copy or a more comprehensive review of the white paper, From Healthcare’s Front Lines: Industry Experts Sound Alarm on Concerning Physician Recruitment Trends in Coming Months visit: https://aappr.org/aappr-white-papers/
The Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR) is a nationally recognized leader in health care provider recruitment, onboarding, and retention. For more than 30 years, AAPPR has empowered physician and advanced practice provider recruitment leaders to transform care delivery in their communities by providing best-in-class practices, up-to-date industry knowledge, and evolving innovative approaches for hiring, onboarding, and retaining exceptional clinical talent.
To learn more or to become an organizational member of AAPPR, please visit https://aappr.org/join-now
A recent national study of physician vacancies reports health care organizations nationwide are facing increased challenges and competition for physician talent. The Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment — a leading authority in the physician and provider recruitment to retention continuum – reports a 40% increase as compared to the same study the year prior. Days needed to fill positions also rose, but only by an average of 8% across NPs, PAs and Primary, Specialty and Surgical Physicians. The modest increase was unexpected given 44% of all searches were put on hold at the nation’s largest health systems due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
More than 150 national health care organizations and systems participated in the comprehensive annual research study representing more than 17,000 searches, almost two-thirds specific to physician searches. Additional findings from the just-released Physician and Provider Recruitment Benchmarking Report include:
“We fully anticipate physician shortage numbers to rise, as the findings in this report reflect just the tip of the COVID iceberg,” said Emerson R. Moses, AAPPR President. “The industry was trending towards a severe shortage before the pandemic which has only accelerated the desire to retire for some, and a potential loss of employment for a percentage of others who may not comply with the vaccine mandate at federally funded health systems across the US. The field of physician recruitment has never been easy, and it’s about to get a lot harder.”
The pandemic, however, accelerated the evolution of best practices for physician recruitment as organizations embraced technology integration to address stop gaps in the recruitment process. The use of virtual interviewing, electronic signatures, and other technology tools were quickly adopted resulting in increased speed-to-hire and reduction of expenses.
“Conducting research and bringing to light the latest trends in physician and provider recruitment is central to our mission,” said Carey Goryl, CEO of AAPPR. “This latest report speaks to the magnitude of the challenges facing the industry and gives health care organizations insight into how they can better perform in this competitive hiring environment.”
In an effort to help health care organizations predict the time it will take to fill a particular physician specialty search, anyone can access the online Days to Fill Calculator. This online predictive tool provides an estimated range of time that it will likely take to fill a specific physician specialty vacancy, based on circumstances such as the organization’s size, geographic area or desirability of location.
The complete 2021 In-house Physician and Provider Recruitment Benchmarking Report is available to organizations for sale online. To order, please visit https://aappr.org/research/benchmarking/ or email info@aappr.org.
About The Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR)
The Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR) is a nationally recognized leader in health care provider recruitment, onboarding, and retention. For more than 30 years, AAPPR has empowered physician and advanced practice provider recruitment leaders to transform care delivery in their communities by providing best-in-class practices, up-to-date industry knowledge, and evolving innovative approaches for hiring, onboarding, and retaining exceptional clinical talent.
To learn more or to become an organizational member of AAPPR, please visit https://aappr.org/join-now
AAPPR has developed comprehensive education in all aspects of physician and provider recruitment that allow you to stand apart from the crowd. We’re excited to announce we will begin hosting in-person courses this Fall for those who enjoy hands-on and face-to-face learning! Courses to be offered include our prestigious CPRP Certification, as well as our new certificate in onboarding and retention.
As we continue planning, we’re asking you to indicate your interest in our course offerings. Descriptions of both courses are provided below. Please use the sign up button to receive emails from AAPPR as more information is made available!
Members $699 | Non-Members $899
The Onboarding and Retention certificate provides strategies for effective onboarding, identifies resources to help you develop and implement successful onboarding programs and share best practices and methodologies to maximize retention efforts. The learning program will provide you an opportunity to engage deeply with a targeted onboarding framework. Each participant can expect to gain tools, tips and tricks to enhance onboarding at whatever level your program is at.
January 24-25, 2022 | Raleigh-Durham, NC
AAPPR Members Only | $1,300
The CPRP certification is the most comprehensive, authoritative resource for health care recruitment professionals seeking to develop and test their skills and knowledge within a broad spectrum of topics including physician and provider recruitment, onboarding and retention, human resources, and relevant legal issues.
The CPRP program takes the certification experience a step further, allowing recruitment professionals to polish those skills they already have and acquire additional knowledge to stay ahead of the curve in this fast-paced industry.
November 9-10 | Chicago, IL
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