Over the last 20 years, the community needs assessment has been at the core of the medical development plan for health systems. But, the days of defining recruitment needs based solely on a market surplus, or shortage, of a particular specialty are long gone.
If you fly enough, at some point, you have encountered the dreaded canceled flight. I was the lucky one that this happened to last Friday night, not once but three times!
Leadership engagement is a critical component to a successful provider recruitment program. Without the right leaders supporting the process, recruitment can easily seem fragmented for the recruitment team and worse yet, for the providers you are trying to bring into the organization.
