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The Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR) is redefining recruitment to retention and is the only professional organization where physician and provider recruitment leaders and others who influence recruitment, onboarding and retention can connect, learn and advance their careers.
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.
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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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Number of Searches per Health Care Organization Continues to Rise
Recently released industry research cites trends
Our new report has the definitive answer. New findings confirm that the United States physician shortage is on the rise, impacting recruitment and retention at every level. From specialists to family medicine practitioners, recruiting and hiring physicians continues to be a challenge facing health care systems and physician practices. This industry trend continues to worsen, according to the recently released benchmark study from the Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR), whose members are the leading authorities in the physician and provider recruitment to retention continuum.
Nearly 150 AAPPR member organizations participated in the extensive annual research study representing more than 10,000 searches, almost two-thirds specific to physicians. A new feature of the interactive report: users can create their unique benchmark report with a Days to Fill Calculator. This online predictive indicator provides a range of time it will likely take to fill a specific physician specialty vacancy based on geographic area or desirability of location.
More key findings from the just-released 2019 In-House Physician and Provider Recruitment Benchmarking Report:
“The physician and provider shortages continue to impact the speed at which health organizations can replace or grow their physician workforce,” said Lynne Peterson, AAPPR Board President. “I’m glad to see that systems are adding staff to their in-house teams to meet the ever increasing demand.”
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 2019 In-house Physician Recruitment Benchmarking Report is available to member organizations for $399. To order, please visit aappr.org/research/benchmarking or email info@aappr.org
The Association of Staff Physician Recruiters (ASPR), the leading authority on physician recruitment, onboarding, and retention, is pleased to announce its five strategic corporate partners for three-year terms beginning in 2017. The partnership initiative is a new program by which ASPR seeks to build stronger relationships with corporate support to grow and advance the profession.
“This is an exciting time for ASPR and our first class of strategic corporate partners as we work together to grow the profession and acknowledge the important role they play in that mission,” said ASPR executive director Carey Goryl, MSW, CAE. “We are delighted to welcome this quintet and work with them over the next three years in what we are confident will be a mutually-beneficial partnership.”
The corporate partners are:
CompHealth — Founded in 1979, CompHealth is a national leader in healthcare staffing, serving providers in more than 100 specialties. CompHealth is the largest locum tenens staffing agency in the U.S. and also specializes in permanent physician placement and both temporary and permanent allied healthcare staffing. CompHealth is part of the CHG Healthcare Services family of companies, which is ranked No. 18 on FORTUNE magazine’s list of “100 Best Companies to Work For.”
NALTO® — The National Association of Locum Tenens Organizations® was established in 2001 to create and enforce strong industry standards and practices for the profession, stressing honesty, objectivity, integrity, and competency. Their goal is to set clear and effective parameters of behavior for all individuals affected by the industry, including both physicians and clients. All NALTO® company members and the physicians they represent are held to guidelines for professional conduct.
NEJM CareerCenter — NEJM CareerCenter is a service of NEJM Group, located in Waltham, Mass. Job postings on NEJM CareerCenter are distributed widely to active and passive job seekers throughout NEJM Group print and web properties, including NEJM.org, the clinical website of the New England Journal of Medicine, JWatch.org, and Resident360.nejm.org. NEJM CareerCenter physician recruitment solutions include the weekly print edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, eight direct-mail Career Guides focused on critical groups, and numerous targeted digital offerings including banners and email sponsorships.
PracticeLink — PracticeLink, the nation’s most widely used online physician recruitment resource, has been a trusted advocate of in-house physician recruitment and a corporate sponsor of ASPR since 1994. PracticeLink is more than a job board—it’s the ultimate suite of physician recruitment tools for in-house recruiters and provides everything they need to make their recruitment process effective and efficient.
PracticeMatch — PracticeMatch is the industry leader in providing practicing physician and resident/fellow data and services to in-house physician staffing professionals and offers a continuum of services designed to provide a clear competitive hiring advantage to health organizations. The company has a history of innovation, being the first to offer physician databases online, the first to fully integrate all recruitment-related services, and the first to launch an online career center with streaming video of both candidates and healthcare facilities.
The Strategic Corporate Partnership Sponsor program is a new addition to the Corporate Contributor program, through which ASPR engages top supporters of in-house physician recruitment through a unique, in-depth relationship. This program acknowledges the significant role sponsors can play in furthering the mission of ASPR. Sponsors partner with ASPR to foster greater communication and collaboration among organizations. They also provide a discount of services or products to ASPR members or some other “in kind” service to ASPR, disclosed in the sponsorship application. For a yearly fee, ASPR Corporate Partners receive concierge-level customer service, assistance in promoting their business, a connection to ASPR Leaders, a seat on the ASPR Strategic Partner Panel, a presence at ASPR’s Annual Conference and several other valuable benefits.
Learn more about the Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment at www.aappr.org.
For more information, contact Carey Goryl, CEO | 800.830.2777 | cgoryl@aappr.org
The Association of Staff Physician Recruiters (ASPR), the leading authority on physician recruitment, onboarding, and retention, is pleased to announce two new strategic corporate partners for 2018 – The Inline Group and VISTA Staffing Solutions. The partnership initiative is a program, started in 2017, by which ASPR builds stronger relationships with corporate support to grow and advance the profession.
“In just its first year, the strategic corporate partnership program has been a great success for ASPR as we work together to grow the profession,” said ASPR executive director Carey Goryl, MSW, CAE. “We are delighted to welcome two new partners and to work with them over the coming years in what we are confident will be a mutually-beneficial partnership.”
The new corporate partners are: The Inline Group supports the in-house physician staffing professional with candidate sourcing, screening and matching services. The goal is to provide a candidate pipeline that allows the in-house recruiter to focus on interviewing, hiring and on-boarding providers. Specializing in primary care, urgent care, hospitalist medicine and behavioral health, they use a combination of leading technology and a robust and current database to source candidates. By not charging traditional placement fees, headhunting fees or advertising fees, they provide the most economical value in healthcare recruitment.
VISTA Staffing Solutions was founded in 1990 and is a leading provider of locum tenens physician, advanced practice and allied health staffing. People come first at VISTA – both those they work with and those they work beside because they believe that people create and sustain their goal to provide continuity of care. The VISTA culture reflects that people first attitude: Supporting creativity, competitiveness, encouragement, growth, success and above all else, making a positive impact on people and the healthcare industry that sustains them.
The Strategic Corporate Partnership Sponsor program provides ASPR the opportunity to engage with partners through a unique, in-depth relationship. This program acknowledges the significant role sponsors can play in furthering the mission of ASPR. Sponsors partner with ASPR to foster greater communication and collaboration among organizations. They also provide a service or product discount or in-kind services to ASPR members as part of the application process.
For a yearly investment, ASPR Corporate Partners receive concierge-level customer service, assistance in promoting their business, a connection to ASPR leaders, a seat on the ASPR Strategic Partner Panel, a presence at ASPR’s Annual Conference and several other valuable benefits.
Learn more about the Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment at www.aappr.org.
For more information, contact Carey Goryl, CEO | 800.830.2777 | cgoryl@aappr.org
The Association of Staff Physician Recruiters (ASPR), the leading authority on physician recruitment, onboarding, and retention, today announced the results of its 2017 In-House Physician Recruitment Benchmarking Report. Among the key findings were physician turnover, at 7.3 percent, remained consistent with recent years. And non-physician turnover, at 8.1%, showed a decrease compared to the 9.8% reported for the last two years, aligning with increased emphasis on onboarding and retention programs.
“We are excited to launch this year’s results. Our participation was very strong, reflecting data that was submitted on nearly 7,000 searches that occurred in 2016,” said Frank Gallagher, President of ASPR. “Increased efforts on recruitment and retention seem to be paying off, with our respondent data showing that more than half have provider onboarding responsibilities, and 36% have provider retention responsibilities.”
Among the additional key findings for in-house physician recruitment departments in the survey are:
“Many factors play into the complexity of the physician recruiting cycle,” Gallagher said. “The US health care system is in a constant state of flux, a projected physician shortage, demand-side factors such as serving the newly insured and an aging population, complex compensation packages, and increased competition among those who employ physicians trying to create a workforce for the future.”
ASPR is comprised of more than 1,700 in‐house physician recruitment professionals employed directly by hospitals, clinics, physician practices, academic medical centers, and managed care organizations from across the United States and Canada. ASPR has conducted the In-House Physician Recruitment Benchmarking Report since 2011 to provide a detailed analysis of the industry with key statistics on provider recruitment searches conducted by in‐house physician recruiters during the most recent calendar year. A total of 144 organizations participated providing data for 490 inhouse physician recruiters and 6,661 active searches.
The full Report and Searchable Results are available for purchase at the ASPR official website. The Association of Staff Physician Recruiters (ASPR) is a professional organization solely for inhouse physician recruitment professionals. ASPR works to empower industry experts through education, research, and engagement in order to promote integrity, professionalism, collegiality and innovative thinking. Founded in 1990, ASPR is the nation’s recognized leader in physician recruitment, onboarding, and retention.
Learn more about the Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment at www.aappr.org.
For more information, contact Carey Goryl, CEO | 800.830.2777 | cgoryl@aappr.org
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