For your next physician or advanced practitioner recruitment project, have you considered the benefits of engaging a boutique healthcare search firm? When you hear the term “boutique healthcare search firm,” you may think of a small specialty firm offering unique, and often high-priced, services to a specialized clientele. Some even believe the larger the recruitment firm, the better their resources and access to candidates. In fact, bigger is not always better when it comes to healthcare search firms. With advanced technology, boutique search firms have the extensive candidate databases and resources utilized primarily by large search firms.

Recruiting a physician requires a significant financial investment. Recruiting the right physician from the outset will save considerable time and money. Many healthcare organizations are going a step further and taking a best practice approach to include onboarding and/or retention programs to protect their recruitment investment.

A vacant physician position, whether due to turnover or a challenging recruitment process, is a fact of life and growing concern for most healthcare organizations.

Hospice Care and Palliative Care protocols call for patients to receive a combined care approach regarding medications, day-to-day care, counseling, and symptom treatment.  Where they differ greatly is in the care location, timing, payment and eligibility for services.