Helping Candidates Find the Right Fit
As a premier healthcare recruitment firm, Jordan Search Consultants focuses on helping organizations find the right candidates for their needs. We also devote significant energy and effort to ensure that candidates find the best job for them. Fulfilling both sides of this equation is crucial to enhanced retention rates– and long-term satisfaction for both parties. […]
Meeting the Demand for Improved Quality of Life with Palliative Care
Chronic disease is the leading cause of death and disability in the United States and, as a result, the need for physicians specializing in palliative and hospice care is significant. Illnesses such as cancer, cardiac disease, kidney failure, Parkinson’s, and ALS affect more than 40% of Americans. While hospice care and palliative care share similarities – in particular pain […]
Recruitment’s Role in Healthcare Quality
This year, National Healthcare Quality Week takes place from October 21 – 27 and focuses on recognizing the personnel and providers tasked with measuring and improving the quality of care provided to patients. Why is this a week worth recognizing? Within the past decade, the healthcare industry’s focus has shifted to quality improvement (QI) which […]
How to Handle Toxic Employees in the Workplace
We’ve all experienced working with someone who leaves negativity and discontent in their wake. Left unchecked, one bad seed will infect teams and can damage an entire organization. But what makes someone a bad seed? It is usually unrelated to their skillset or abilities; instead it is a persistently demoralizing attitude and associated behaviors towards […]
DOs and MDs to Share Accreditation by 2020: A Move Towards Equality
For years, there was an unfounded stereotype surrounding Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine (DOs). It was wrongly assumed that because DOs emphasize a whole-person approach to treatment and care, receive musculoskeletal training known as osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT), and often practice hands-on healing, that they were closer to chiropractors than Medical Doctors (MDs). Perhaps the biggest […]
The Importance of Frequently Evaluating and Adjusting Physician Compensation Plans
Last month, MGMA released the results of a poll that asked healthcare organizations from around the country if they have adjusted their physician compensation plans within the past two years. We were surprised to learn that 46% of organizations responded with “no”. While we know it’s not practical to completely redesign compensation year-over-year, it is important to […]
Could Nurse Practitioners Be the Future of Population Health?
Population health management may be losing its novelty buzz, but the quest to improve it remains as significant as ever. Despite its various definitions, it’s important to note that population health is not just the overall health of a population, but also includes the distribution of health services. Population health strives to identify opportunities that meet […]
Physician Leaders and Healthcare Executives: Here is what a Letter of Interest Really Is
It seems impossible—in our industry at least—to go a day without seeing an article touting the need for effective leaders. This is in large part due to the rapidly changing and increasingly regulated healthcare environment. More than ever, healthcare leaders (e.g. chief executive officers, chief medical officers, medical directors, etc.) are being recruited in order […]
Jordan Search Consultants Introduces Career Placement Solutions
Consider this: a healthcare client engages us to conduct a search for an orthopedic surgeon. We conduct an exhaustive search, taking into account all specified requirements, organizational culture, and more. We present four high-quality candidates and the client selects one. The candidate accepts and all is well. But, what happens to the other three […]
Five Ways to Make Physician Recruiting as Effective as Possible
According to study cited by the American Medical Association (AMA), experts “estimate that by 2020 the nation will need from 85,000 to 200,000 more physicians than the existing pipeline can produce.” With physician demand at an all-time high, it is imperative that your organization’s recruitment process become as effective and efficient as possible. Achieving this […]
