AMN Healthcare: Providing physician workforce solutions to increase staffing efficiencies and improve the patient experience

Your company is integrating two leaders in physician staffing, Merritt Hawkins and Staff Care, to become AMN Healthcare Physician Solutions. Can you tell us why the change?

Our goal with this change is to create a more cohesive physician experience for our clients and candidates, allowing access to all AMN Healthcare resources and support. Our all-in-one strategic approach to permanent and temporary physician staffing increases efficiency, reduces complexity and ultimately improves the patient experience.

What does AMN Healthcare Physician Solutions do, and who can you help in healthcare?

AMN Healthcare Physician Solutions helps healthcare facilities source their physician staffing needs. We oversee more than 3,000 physician recruiting assignments annually and provide access to a network of quality locum tenens, permanent physicians and advanced practitioners to hospitals, medical groups, community health centers and telehealth providers nationwide. We are structured around teams of placement experts, licensing and credentialing specialists, and clinical support professionals.

We have a full suite of physician placement services to meet clients’ needs. We also take the time to learn a client’s business and be a single-source, strategic partner and adviser.

What are some of the biggest challenges for healthcare organizations, and how do your physician service offerings help address these needs?

We see a variety of pain points across all healthcare organizations. Creating AMN Healthcare Physician Solutions by bringing Merritt Hawkins and Staff Care together allows us to address those issues by making us even stronger and better equipping us to provide the flexible, comprehensive solutions, workforce flexibility and smarter operations that will positively impact the client’s bottom line and their patients’ outcomes.

We help clients holistically plan, acquire and engage the full spectrum and sources of talent, from clinical to leadership, to drive improved efficiency, better patient experience, innovative care models, and workforce engagement and retention.

What physician services would you particularly like healthcare organizations to know about?

Physician staffing shortages can be costly to organizations, leading to lost revenue and delays in treatment, long waiting times and even physician burnout.

We find that when clients work with us, we’re able to utilize our database, which is flush with qualified doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurse anesthetists, dental professionals and more to help clients be successful.

Our thorough vetting process ensures that all presented candidates are highly screened and ready to help. AMN Healthcare has a new locum tenens to permanent staffing program, which offers clients a no-risk, all-reward solution. With a shortage of physicians and advanced practitioners nationwide, there is a lot of pressure to get hiring decisions right. Think of the locum tenens period as a “working interview” to help clients find talent aligned with their culture.

What other physician resources do you offer to help healthcare providers?

We also offer NCQA-Certified Credentials Verification. Our credentialing and licensing process for physicians and advanced practice professionals meets the industry’s highest quality standards.

Will this consolidation of brands impact your ability to recruit healthcare professionals to fill client’s staffing needs?

We are one of the largest healthcare staffing companies in the United States with nearly 40 years of industry-leading experience and access to more than 2 million healthcare professionals nationwide. We have numerous channels that we utilize to recruit the highest quality healthcare professionals.

With the full AMN Healthcare talent network, we are building a robust community across all healthcare specialties and settings, where clinicians can find ample opportunities for the duration of their careers. We see this as an opportunity to streamline our recruitment process, so we are faster and more efficient in staffing the unique workforce needs for healthcare organizations.

What are the benefits of working with AMN Healthcare?

We have tech-enabled solutions for every workforce challenge. While we support 10,000 clients annually, we always take customized approaches to achieve goals with solutions that go beyond the standard — including telehealth and language solutions. We have innovative capabilities with integrated technologies that reduce labor spend through predictive analytics to forecast patient demand, business intelligence tools and data management to support decision-making, and AI-powered order-candidate matching and notifications. Our digital-first, total-talent ecosystem improves operational efficiency by providing flexible solutions at the right time, scale and cost.

What resources have you developed to help healthcare providers in these efforts?

One of the things I’m most proud of that we do at AMN Healthcare is providing thought leadership to our industry. For years, AMN has provided research and insights about physician salaries, telehealth, language opportunities for health systems, and other industry trends by producing series of surveys, white papers and webinar presentations internally and for third parties.

Following our rebranding, we have also enhanced our AMNHealthcare.com website with a new dual experience for both clients and candidates. In addition, we have added the candidate job search function allowing candidates to filter searches for all disciplines, settings and locations. Thought leadership materials, blogs, infographics and other materials can be found on our website. To stay up to date on AMN Healthcare news, industry insights and trends, people can follow us on LinkedIn.

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About AMN Healthcare

AMN Healthcare is a digitally enabled workforce solutions partner focused on solving the biggest challenges affecting healthcare organizations today. We offer a single-partner approach to optimize labor sources, increase operating margins, and provide technologies to expand the reach of care. For 40 years we have served the healthcare community with innovative recruitment and search services, creating a breadth of job opportunities in all specialties across the country, offering the largest network of quality healthcare professionals fulfilling and impactful careers. People are at the heart of everything we do, and we are committed to the inclusion of different backgrounds and perspectives and focused on fostering a diverse and talented team that reflects the communities we serve. At AMN Healthcare, we are empowering the future of care. For more information, visit www.amnhealthcare.com.

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