Howard Bogard Authors Article on Physician Recruitment and Retention Issues in Community Hospitals
January 14, 2010
Howard Bogard’s article is the first in a series of Executive Summaries dealing with the unique challenges facing community hospitals.
A hospital’s ability to successfully recruit and retain physicians depends on a host of factors, including the availability of financial resources from which to offer
recruiting and retention arrangements, the ability to attract physicians in needed specialties, satisfying an increased demand by many physicians to have “guaranteed” incomes, and compliance with strict and complicated fraud and abuse laws. Community hospitals face all of these challenges, but do so with limited budgets and few, if any dedicated recruiting personnel. In addition,
community hospitals, which are often located in rural areas, have to convince physicians that a smaller community provides similar professional opportunities
(i.e., compensation) as compared with urban areas and that any shortcomings are offset by a better “quality of life.” Despite these challenges or maybe because
of them, community hospitals have available several unique options to help in their physician recruitment and retention.
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by: Howard E. Bogard
topics: Health Care