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For Healthcare Facilities

5 Interview Questions Facilities Should Ask Every Locum

In some ways, interviewing a locum is a lot like interviewing any other potential employee. In others, the process is considerably different. Because locums are […]

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Busting 5 Locum Tenens Staffing Myths

With the staffing shortage reaching historic levels, it makes sense that healthcare facilities have increasingly turned to locum tenens agencies: With their pools of ready-to-work […]

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What Is a Well-Rounded Provider? 4 Qualities to Consider in Your Locum Tenens Candidates

When recruiting in healthcare, it can be easy to look for candidates with the right degree — and stop your search there. Does she have […]

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When to Hire an DO vs. an MD for Your Facility [INFOGRAPHIC]

This National Doctors’ Day, we want to make it easy for you to not only hire a doctor, but find the best possible candidate for […]

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What Is Locum Tenens? A Comprehensive Guide for Healthcare Facilities

What is locum tenens? As a service model, the practice’s earliest iterations have a history long and storied enough to match some of our nation’s […]

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Strategies for Reducing Hospital Readmission Rates

High readmission rates cost hospitals money: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) penalize institutions when patients return quickly after discharge. And, according to […]

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Escape Hospital Politics With Locum Tenens

Locum tenens work offers clinicians a way out of the petty squabbles, backstabbing, and Machiavellian machinations that color hospital politics. Yes, these things are present […]

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How Physician Burnout Is Harming Your Facility

Anyone who has worked long hours understands the feeling of burnout: When you get home, all you want to do is relax, get some sleep, […]

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4 Emerging Healthcare Roles Every Facility Leader Should Know About

The healthcare industry is changing. The Affordable Care Act is beginning to take hold and create new jobs, and these roles offer exciting opportunities for […]

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3 Ways NPs and PAs Can Lower Readmissions

Last month, Medicare reduced reimbursement rates to 2,592 hospitals due to their high number of 30-day readmissions. The reductions came as part of the Hospital […]

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How to Onboard Locum Tenens Providers

Every week, hundreds if not thousands of locum tenens physicians, dentists, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants (PA) start new assignments. For most of them, it […]

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5 Ways to Market Your Urgent Care Center via Patient Experience

Last week, we talked about ways marketing your urgent care clinic can increase its web presence and community profile. This week I will focus on […]

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