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OKEMOS, Mich. (May 23, 2023) – The Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR), the leading authority on physician recruitment, onboarding and retention, has announced six new corporate partnerships for 2023.
AAPPR, the leading authority on physician recruitment, onboarding and retention, 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.
“Our goal to advance the health care industry and patient care by providing our members with high quality education, resources and connections is substantial, and not something we can reach alone,” said Carey Goryl, CEO of AAPPR. “AAPPR’s partners have the opportunity to contribute to industry development and advancement by helping us in our mission of best serving our members, so they can best serve their organizations, and ultimately, 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.
Signature partners, AAPPR’s highest and most industrious Partner level, include:
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 will work with these six companies 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 the Signature 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.
May 5, 2023 (Okemos, Mich.) – The Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR), the nation’s leading authority on physician recruitment, onboarding and retention, has released its Recruitment Process Report.
The report, which is based on a survey of 241 internal physician and provider recruitment professionals, highlights trends in how health care organizations manage the sourcing, interviewing and onboarding process for physicians and providers. The Recruitment Process Survey is the eighth form in a series of Specialized Surveys published by AAPPR, highlighting the advantages of a specialized in-house team of recruitment professionals.
While health care organizations have found success and cost efficiencies through utilizing and empowering their in-house physician and provider recruitment teams, approximately one third of respondents across organizations of all sizes indicated that the recruitment department is not involved in medical staff workforce or service line planning. By including recruitment teams in these types of planning, organizations have an opportunity to improve long-term stability and vertical communication.
Incorporating recruitment teams into strategic planning becomes especially important in organizations that cannot afford a gap in service during a physician candidate search. The report found that while 60.2% of organizations received a signed contract from a physician candidate within two weeks of an offer, physicians’ start dates are an average of 120 days after accepting the position. This is largely due to the credentialing and privileging process, which takes between one and three months for the majority of participating organizations.
“The need for efficiency in the recruitment and onboarding process is becoming increasingly important for health care organizations as more physicians reach retirement age,” said Carey Goryl, CEO of AAPPR. “In-house recruitment teams have unique expertise on the most effective recruiting, onboarding and retention processes and can play an important role when involved in organizational workforce planning. However, in many cases, these teams are underutilized.”
The Recruitment Process Report provides benchmarks on internal recruitment processes, enabling health care organizations to self-assess and self-correct elements within their control. The organizations with the most successful physician and provider recruitment programs are those who work collaboratively with clear communication, role clarity, and measurements of success.
While internal recruitment teams often have the responsibility to fill positions with quality candidates faster than ever, these professionals do not work in isolation from the rest of their organization. Data in the report provides insights on broader improvements that can be made to address common challenges facing recruitment professionals, such as the ongoing workforce shortage, provider maldistribution and ongoing malaise and burnout among physicians and recruitment professionals.
The full Recruitment Process Report is available for purchase here.
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.
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
The Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR), the leading authority on physician recruitment, onboarding, and retention, has announced a new strategic corporate partner for 2021 – LocumsMart. Through its online portal LocumsMart provides a comprehensive virtual marketplace which connects healthcare facilities with agencies and candidates.
AAPPR’s strategic partner program, launched in 2017, fosters strong corporate relationships that support its mission to address the challenging and complex nature of physician and provider recruiting, onboarding and retention. This work is critical in a US health care sector that is facing significant and unrelenting physician shortages in the years ahead.
Founded in 2009, LocumsMart’s proprietary vendor-neutral portal connects 1500+ healthcare facilities with 95+ agencies and 7,000+ unique locum candidates presented in 2020. Preferred by more hospitals nationwide than any other vendor management system, their competitive online marketplace helps save clients time and money by streamlining and simplifying the locums procurement process. LocumsMart is the only system available created specifically for the locums industry, by locums industry professionals.
“There is perhaps no other time in AAPPR’s nearly 30-year history to have a better opportunity to anticipate and accelerate the profound transformation the health care sector will face moving forward. When LocumsMart entered on the scene in 2009 no one was sure of the impact they would have on locums tenens recruitment but they have since become a game changer. Our partnership program is built upon organizations like LocumsMart and our other partners working together to positively impact this industry,” said AAPPR CEO executive Carey Goryl, MSW, CAE.
“LocumsMart is excited about this mutually beneficial partnership to create and improve the tools that serve professionals in physician recruitment,” said Keitha Ray, Vice President, National Sales and Marketing. “We want to work with AAPPR to not just help recruiters, but further consult on the locums industry.”
For more information about AAPPR or the strategic partnership program visit www.aappr.org or email info@aappr.org. For more information about LocumsMart visit www.locumsmart.net.
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OKEMOS, MI / ACCESSWIRE / October 7, 2020 / According to a recent physician and provider recruitment benchmark study filling Surgery and Primary Care physician positions took less time last year – a five-year low for Primary Care placements. The study, reflecting data just prior to COVID-19, also showed that Health Care organizations continue to grow and seek more physicians. The report comes from the Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR), whose members are the leading authorities in the recruitment to retention continuum.
Nearly 150 AAPPR health organizations participated in the extensive annual research study representing more than 11,000 searches, almost two-thirds specific to physician searches.
Additional findings from the just-released 2020 In-House Physician and Provider Recruitment Benchmarking Report include:
“The time it takes to fill a physician search is a metric tracked by all health organizations and is often the most important data point to healthcare executives. I’m happy to see this number decreasing as it may point to added efficiencies and the leveraging of technology within in-house recruitment teams,” said Emerson Moses, AAPPR Board President-Elect. “It is good to see that organizations continue to add recruitment and talent acquisition staff to their in-house teams, which must almost certainly contributes to increased effectiveness.”
Carey Goryl, CEO of AAPPR stated, “It was a positive sign that so many organizations participated in the study even amid the start of COVID-19 in the U.S. It was important to capture the industry’s data as it was pre- COVID. What we’re seeing and hearing now is that there are more physician candidates in the search pool, especially in rural areas. And from in-house teams to placement firms, many are noting that the time to fill positions is getting even shorter.”
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.
AAPPR also offers a Compensation Calculator that estimates a recruitment professional’s compensation based on factors such as role in the company, years of experience, formal education, organization size, etc. to anyone who purchases the report.
The Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR) is a professional organization comprised of nearly 2,000 members focused solely on advancing in-house physician and provider recruitment professionals. AAPPR is the leading authority on physician/provider recruitment and retention.
The complete 2020 In-house Physician and Provider Recruitment Benchmarking Report is available to organizations for $399. To order, please visit https://aappr.org/research/benchmarking/ or email info@aappr.org.
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(Okemos, MI) – Feburary 2, 2020 – The Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR), the leading authority on physician recruitment, onboarding, and retention, announced a new strategic corporate partner for 2020 – Health eCareers brings together physicians, NPs, PAs, and CRNAs with jobs in every medical specialty. With thousands of health care employers across the United States and an exclusive network of premier health care associations and community partners, Health eCareers supports qualified health care providers in finding opportunities with employers looking for top talent.
AAPPR’s strategic partner program, launched in 2017, fosters strong corporate relationships that support its mission to address the challenging and complex nature of physician and provider recruiting, onboarding, and retention. This work is critical in a US health care sector that is facing significant and unrelenting physician shortages in the years ahead.
Health eCareers was founded in 1993 with the mission to connect physicians, NPs, PAs, and CRNAs with the best healthcare career opportunities. By enabling physicians, advanced practice providers, and their organizations to focus on quality patient care and community well-being via indispensable career resources, the company has attracted more than 800,000 verified providers to their platform.
“Now in its third year, the AAPPR Strategic Corporate Partners program has grown to include key players that are working collectively and collaboratively to support AAPPR members, physician and provider recruitment professionals,” said AAPPR CEO executive Carey Goryl, MSW, CAE. “Every one of our partners wants our members to succeed in their work and for health providers to find the right community for them. Our new partner, joining the current partners, creates a powerful foundation from which our members will grow and, in turn, will enable them to improve health in the communities their respective organizations serve.”
“We are excited to partner with AAPPR to advance physician and provider recruitment,” said Greg Chang, Managing Director of Health eCareers. “The physician shortage and maldistribution of supply create unique challenges for recruiters, health systems, and the organizations they serve. Through this partnership, AAPPR and Health eCareers will help recruiters across the country address these challenges more effectively.”
The Strategic Corporate Partnership program provides AAPPR the opportunity to engage with companies through a unique, in-depth relationship. This program acknowledges the significant role allied companies can play in furthering the mission of AAPPR. This relationship fosters more exceptional communication and collaboration among the organizations, providing a think tank of individuals whose companies ultimately offer products and services to AAPPR members.
The Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR) is a professional organization comprised of nearly 2,000 members focused solely on advancing in-house physician and provider recruitment professionals. AAPPR is the leading authority on physician/provider recruitment and retention. To learn more, visit aappr.org.
Health eCareers is a recruitment marketing company focused on matching top healthcare employers with physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and CRNAs across the country in every medical specialty. To learn more, visit healthecareers.com, or find them on Facebook and Twitter. Health eCareers is an Everyday Health Group service.
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The Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR), whose 2,000 members are the leading authorities on physician and provider recruitment and retention, recently completed a technology research study. It reveals that investments in technology to support physician and provider recruitment in the health care sector lags behind other technology investments by hospitals and health systems. Physician and provider recruitment already experiences challenges with numerous issues, including a decrease in physicians, and the lack of technology adds to these challenges.
“The United States physician shortage is on the rise, impacting recruitment, and retention at every level,” said Carey Goryl, AAPPR’s Chief Executive Officer. “From specialists to family medicine practitioners, recruiting and hiring physicians continues to be a challenge facing health care systems and physician practices. Yet the industry trend towards improved adoption of technology for patient care has not found its way to provider recruitment.”
Key findings from the just-released 2019 AAPPR Physician Recruitment Technology Utilization and Satisfaction Study:
Health systems that use commercial software solutions and those who use “home-grown” solutions are nearly equally dissatisfied. Numbers show that of those systems using commercial solutions, 28% are dissatisfied; those using “home-grown” solutions are 36% dissatisfied. According to recruitment leaders, this statistic illustrated that even organizations that have invested in applicant tracking software are not providing the provider recruitment teams platforms that support their work.
“The physician and provider shortages continue to impact the speed at which healthcare organizations can replace or grow their physician workforce,” said Emerson Moses, AAPPR Board President-Elect. “It’s distressing to see that technology investments to support the very specific and niche needs of the physician and provider recruitment process are not keeping pace with advancements that would give their organizations a competitive edge.”
The Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR) is a professional organization comprised of 2,000 members focused solely on advancing in-house physician and provider recruitment professionals. AAPPR is the leading authority on physician/provider recruitment and retention.
The complete 2019 AAPPR Physician Recruitment Technology Utilization and Satisfaction Study Report is available at aappr.org/research/surveys-reports/
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