In This Issue:
- Top Story: Medical Economics’ 2022 Physician Report: Top 10 Issues Facing Physicians This Year
- LocumTenens.com Named One of the Fastest Growing Companies in Georgia
- Floyd Lee Locums Names VP of Engagement
- TheraEx Staffing Services Introduced TheraEx Locums
- 20 Hospitals Using the Most Temporary Physicians
- Term of the Month: The “Surgicalist” Model
- More States Push to Clarify CRNA Scope Of Practice: 4 State Laws To Know
- SIA “40 Under 40 List for 2022” Published
- New Federal Agency Collaboration Could Spell Trouble for Gig Economy, Businesses Utilizing Independent Contractors
- Global Healthcare Staff Shortages to Fuel 7% Sector Growth
- Nominations Still Being Accepted for Global Power 150 List of Women in Staffing
- Cross Country Healthcare Names Craig Hoven SVP, Managing Consultant Of Cejka Search
- COVID-19 Transformed Traditional Staffing Practices: Why You Shouldn’t Revert to Old Ways
- Socially Speaking: Social Posts of Note from All Star, Wilderness, MPLT & Interim Physicians
Medical Economics’ 2022 Physician Report: Top 10 Issues Facing Physicians This Year
(Edited from Medical Economics, 6/21/2022)
Staffing and supply shortages at medical practices make the list for the first time.
While the top issues physicians identified remained similar to previous years, new challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic and the “Great Resignation” were felt by practices, according to the 2022 Physician Report.
For the first time in 2022, physicians identified supply shortages and lack of staffing as among the top 10 issues. Here are the top 10 issues in reverse order of importance. (Trend from previous year follows each entry in parenthesis.)
10. Supply Shortages (↑)
9. Malpractice/Tort Reform (-)
8. Recruiting Young Physicians (↑)
7. Lack of Trust in Healthcare Institutions & Medical Knowledge (↑)
6. Lack of Staffing (↑)
5. Electronic health record systems (↓)
4. Inadequate Reimbursement (↑)
3. Third-Party Interference (e.g., Prior Authorizations) (-)
2. Burnout/work-life balance (↑)
1. Burden of Paperwork/Quality Metrics (-)
Medical Economics® is proud to present the 2022 Physician Report, the 93rd year of this survey of doctors. This in-depth survey presents exclusive data collected from the magazine’s physician audience on salaries, productivity, malpractice rates, the state of the profession, and much more. The survey was conducted by HRA®, a full-service healthcare market research agency and a brand of MJH Life Sciences®. Data were collected from physicians who responded to email invitations during the first quarter of 2022.
All News Is Locums
LocumTenens.com Named One of the Fastest Growing Companies in Georgia
(Edited from Yahoo!Finance.com, 7/25/2022)
LocumTenens.com has been named to the 2022 “Georgia Fast 40” list by the Atlanta Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG). Currently in its 14th year, the awards program honors the fastest growing middle market companies in Georgia, with LocumTenens.com recognized as the fourth fastest growing company in the “Higher Middle Market” category.
To be considered, companies must be headquartered in Georgia and submit three years of verifiable revenue and employment growth records. In addition, executives from the list-eligible companies were interviewed by ACG representatives to discuss topics such as what makes their businesses unique and how they plan to maintain their current growth. The list’s three categories–Lower, Upper and Higher Middle Market–are based on annual revenue.
“Because of our company’s phenomenal growth, we’ve been able to make a greater impact on the healthcare professionals and facilities we work with, as well as the patients they serve,” LocumTenens.com President Chris Franklin said. “We’re honored to be included on the Georgia Fast 40 list.”
Floyd Lee Locums Names VP of Engagement
(Edited from Floyd Lee Locums news release, 7/28/2022)
Floyd Lee Locums has expanded its senior leadership team by naming Tim Rogers it’s vice president, Engagement. Rogers will oversee the organization’s concierge positioning and manage “go-to-market engagement strategies’” with clients and partners.
“Tim ushers in a new era of engagement and of concierge locum experience that we have been gaining ground on,” said Co-Founder and CEO Natasha Lee. “He is a consummate professional and we are fortunate to have his expertise and perspective.”
Rogers will focus on thought leadership and clinician satisfaction, “ensuring the organization is delivering an exceptional experience to connect on a deeper level with providers, both new and tenured,” Lee added.
For the past six years, Rogers was the senior vice president, Membership, with the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce.
TheraEx Staffing Services Introduced TheraEx Locums
(Edited from Cision/PRNewswire release, 7/20/2022)
TheraEx Staffing Services recently launched a “new sister company,” TheraEx Locums.
As a partner to both clinicians and healthcare facilities nationwide, TheraEx Locums delivers 24/7 support and personalized amenities for locum clinicians.
“TheraEx Locums focuses on one thing: locum tenens staffing,” TheraEx Locums President Rey Rivera said. “Our goal is to serve medical facilities such as inpatient and outpatient clinics, surgery centers, private practices, and more by providing world-class healthcare staffing services while upholding our core values of customer service, honesty, and transparency.”
20 Hospitals Using the Most Temporary Physicians
(Edited from Becker’s ASC Review story by Patsy Newett, 7/13/2022)
Nearly 6,000 hospitals used locum tenens physicians to staff their facilities in 2021, according to a July report by Definitive Healthcare.
Here are 20 hospitals with the highest number of temporary providers, followed by the number of temporary providers:
- Christus Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital (Lake Charles, La.): 2,431
- Christus Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Shoreline (Corpus Christi, Texas): 2,402
- Christus Southeast Texas-St. Elizabeth (Beaumont, Texas): 2,274
- Christus Spohn Hospital Beeville (Texas): 2,266
- Christus Santa Rosa Hospital-Medical Center (San Antonio): 2,248
- Providence Hospital (Mobile, Ala.): 1,805
- Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City (Missouri): 1,772
- MedStar Georgetown University Hospital (Washington, D.C.): 1,662
- Wilmington (Del.) Hospital: 1,452
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia): 1,415
- Grundy County Memorial Hospital (Grundy Center, Iowa): 1,360
- Sibley Memorial Hospital (Washington, D.C.): 1,296
- Saint Luke’s South Hospital (Overland Park, Kan.): 1,295
- Saint Luke’s East Hospital (Lee’s Summit, Mo.): 1,112
- Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (Lebanon, N.H.): 1,075
- Christus St. Frances Cabrini Hospital (Alexandria, La.): 1,069
- Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis (Tennessee.): 1,047
- UPMC Presbyterian (Pittsburgh): 990
- Mayo Clinic Hospital-Saint Mary’s Campus (Rochester, Minn.): 986
- MedStar Washington Hospital Center (Washington, D.C.): 729
Term of the Month: The “Surgicalist” Model
(Edited from Synergy-HP.com)
“The founders of Synergy Health Partners are early pioneers of the “surgicalist” model—a hospital-based career path for surgeons that separates private practice work from acute, hospital-based care. Working as a surgicalist is not like working as a locum tenens provider. As a surgicalist, you are an integral member of an embedded team and serve as a leader in a designated community.
“Unlike locum tenens, our surgeons function as integrated and active members of the medical staff and work scheduled shifts at a dedicated facility.”
Synergy Health Partners believes this team-based approach to post-surgical hospital care “eliminates the burden of staffing from the hospital while allowing doctors and advanced practice clinicians flexible shifts” that free them up to pursue other interests. “Hospitals that implement staffing models that benefit the mental health and personal lives of their people will be positioned as employers of choice, even in difficult-to-recruit areas,” the company suggests in its brief entitled, “How the Great Resignation Could Help Rural Hospitals with Hospital Staffing.” To download the brief, click here.
More States Push to Clarify CRNA Scope Of Practice: 4 State Laws To Know
(Edited from Becker’s ASC Review article by Patsy Newitt, 7/11/2022)
The American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA) is one of the chief organizations pushing state legislatures to remove barriers to certified registered nurse anesthetists’ scope of practice.
Here are four states that have clarified the scope of practice for CRNAs in 2022:
1. In June, Maryland expanded CRNA scope of practice to include the ability to order and prescribe medications, including controlled substances, AANA said.
2. In May, Michigan became the 20th state to opt out of the physician supervision requirement for CRNAs.
3. On April 18, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law a provision that allows CRNAs to provide anesthesia services in coordination with a physician, podiatrist or dentist.
4. On January 19, the Alaska Board of Nursing adopted rules that eliminated specific administrative procedures as a requirement for CRNA licensure, AANA said. CRNAs and other advanced practice registered nurses practicing in Alaska are no longer required to submit to the state “consultation and referral plans” to provide anesthesia services.
The Healthcare Staffing Story
SIA’s “40 Under 40 List for 2022” Published
(Edited from SIA Daily News, 7/19/2022)
SIA’s 2022 list of 40 Under 40 leaders and innovators in the staffing industry debuted online last week. Locumpedia congratulates the three healthcare staffing trailblazers who have helped their clients and companies not just survive but thrive through turbulent times.
This year’s SIA honorees include
- Kristina Soldani, president, Critical Staffing Solutions, AMN Healthcare
- Tara Sprakel, chief marketing officer, Fusion Medical Staffing
- Nichole G. Vaux, vice president of Marketing, Cross Country Healthcare
SIA’s 40 Under 40 is not a ranking but a recognition of professionals from companies operating in the US who “stand out as industry leaders and elevate the ecosystem through their efforts,” SIA notes.
The list, along with the profiles of the honorees, is featured in the July/August 2022 issue of Staffing Industry Review magazine. Those named to the list will also be honored during SIA’s “Collaboration in the Gig Economy” conference this September. The 2022 40 Under 40 is sponsored by Avionté and WorkN.
New Federal Agency Collaboration Could Spell Trouble for Gig Economy, Businesses Utilizing Independent Contractors
(Edited from SIA Daily News, 7/27/2022, & FisherPhilips news release by Alba V. Aviles, 7/22/2022)
The National Labor Relations Board and the Federal Trade Commission on July 19 signed a memorandum of understanding to enforce protections of workers at gig economy businesses and elsewhere that misclassify independent contractors (ICs) or impose non-compete and disclosure provisions, law firm Fisher Phillips reports.
The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the federal agencies facilitates information sharing, cross-agency consultation, training, outreach, education and enforcement. It became effective on the date of its signing and remains so unless terminated by either party with 30 days advance written notice to the other agency.
“Businesses in the gig economy and elsewhere that fail to properly classify employees or impose non-compete and disclosure provisions could find themselves subject to scrutiny like never before,” Fisher Phillips noted in its release.
MOU’s Significance
While the MOU is broad, the NLRB and FTC have identified mutual areas of interest “such as the misclassification of workers in the gig economy, imposition of restrictive non-compete and nondisclosure provisions, and the ‘ability of workers to act collectively.’ ”
In its press release, the NLRB stated that “when businesses interfere with [the right under federal law to act collectively to improve their working conditions], either through unfair practices, or anti-competitive conduct, it hurts our entire nation.”
Similarly, FTC Chair Lina M. Khan added that the FTC is “committed to using all tools at its disposal to promote free and unfair labor markets in which companies must compete with each other to attract and retain workers.” She specifically identified one goal of the MOU was to “crack down on anticompetitive mergers and unfair practices that deny workers and their families the pay, benefits and conditions they deserve.”
What Should Businesses Do?
Fisher Phillips suggests that “businesses that depend upon independent contractors should perform internal audits to assess their level of risk for misclassification” and also review any non-compete and non-disclosure agreements to determine whether they could be considered anti-competitive in light of the increased federal focus on worker rights.
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Global Healthcare Staff Shortages to Fuel 7% Sector Growth
(Edited from Yahoo News, 7/22/2022)
The global healthcare staffing market is expected to reach USD 62.8 billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of 6.89% over the forecast period. According to ResearchandMarkets.com’s most recent Global Healthcare Staffing Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report, 2022-2030, the market is being driven by the increased demand, particularly among the elderly, for temporary nursing workers.
Under pressure from a large geriatric population and increasing public health access, the worldwide healthcare system currently is focused on having well-trained healthcare staff in place. However, the gap between healthcare demand and the supply of nurses and doctors continues to widen.
The news release highlighted findings from Aya Healthcare indicating that demand for registered nurses increased by 44% in December 2020 alone.
The WHO estimates a global shortage of 4.3 million physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. The scarcity is often starkest in developing countries with limited capacity and relatively fewer medical schools.
ResearchandMarkets.com expects the locum tenens segment to register the fastest CAGR over the forecast period as growing numbers of physicians choose to work on a locum tenens basis and because of the segment’s cost-effectiveness for facilities.
Nominations Still Being Accepted for Global Power 150 List of Women in Staffing
(Edited from SIA Daily News, 7/26/2022)
SIA continues to accept nominations for Staffing Industry Analysts’ “2022 Global Power 150” list of the most influential women in the staffing industry. Nominations may be made online.
The Americas portion of the “Global Power 150—Women in Staffing” list will be profiled in the November/December issue of Staffing Industry Review magazine and on a companion website. Profiles for the international portion will also appear online.
To submit nominations for the “Global Power 150—Women in Staffing” list, go to this survey. The deadline is Aug. 19.
Cross Country Healthcare Names Craig Hoven SVP, Managing Consultant Of Cejka Search
(Edited from Cross Country Healthcare news release, 7/13/2022)
Cross Country Healthcare, Inc. (NASDAQ: CCRN), has named Craig Hoven its senior vice president and managing consultant of Cejka Search, the organization’s executive search division.
“We are excited to have Craig join our Cejka Search team,” said Buffy White, group president, Workforce Solutions. “His skill in identifying and connecting talented C-level executives, physician leaders, key senior management members, and academic medicine faculty with our healthcare facility partners nationwide comes at a crucial time in the industry, given the executive movements and open needs across systems we are seeing.”
Hoven will lead all aspects of the executive search process, including candidate recruitment and interviewing, development of effective client/candidate relationships, client/candidate management, and candidate placement. Hoven brings more than two decades of healthcare staffing leadership experience to his new role.
Tools to Try/News to Use
COVID-19 Transformed Traditional Staffing Practices: Why You Shouldn’t Revert to Old Ways
(Edited from Becker’s Hospital Review, 7/23/2022)
Tuesday, August 16th, 2022 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CT
Travel nurse demand skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic and exposed cracks in hospitals’ staffing practices. By working with staffing agencies more often than ever before, hospitals learned lessons that have transformed traditional staffing practices.
During this webinar, the founders of SnapNurse will share best practices for building strong agency relationships, tips to optimize staffing and how technology can provide high visibility.
Key learning points:
- Best practices for negotiating with agencies and bad practices to avoid
- Eliminate credentialing barrier headaches like state licensing
- How hospitals can build their own agency pool and reduce spend
LocumsMart Education Conference attendees can earn up to 8.5 CE credits from the Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR). This year’s conference is all about learning and advancing your career–and having fun while doing it!
Session Topics Include:
- The Future of Healthcare Staffing (discussed with an industry leader panel)
- Hiring the Right Physician: tips from Scott Rouse, body language expert
- Healthcare + politics
- Malpractice insurance
- Effective technology use
- LocumsMart training, data leveraging, and other skills (1:1 and sessions)
- Building relationships, and more!
Need more reasons to attend? Check out this blog post by LocumsMart President Aaron Paul.
You can click here to reserve your spot at the conference and learn more. In the meantime, please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions you may have about the conference, earning CE credits, or anything else on your mind. We can’t wait to see you in Nashville!
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