If clinical skills are the critical machinery for health care providers, personal development is the fuel that runs the machinery more effectively. After all, health care providers approach patients as human being as well as a professional. While it is true that technology advances are so rapid that it is a challenge to simply keep […]
PHG Places a Husband and Wife Team!
The Need: This rural, West Virginia-based hospital is in the process of establishing a brand new interventional cardiology program. They were searching for an interventional cardiologist that would fit their needs. Pinnacle Health Group partnered with this hospital to help fill this need with the perfect physician. The Action: Pinnacle Health Group sprung into action […]
Mid-Level Providers can Help Ease the Physician Shortage Blow
Amidst an already apparent physician shortage, experts have projected that these current shortage numbers will only continue to increase in the coming years. Complexities of Physician Supply and Demand: Projections Through 2025, a published report by the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) in 2008 details that through 2025, the supply of physicians in America […]
Pinnacle Health Group announces its optimal staffing placement services in mid-level / advanced practitioners
December 2011, Atlanta, GA—Pinnacle Health Group (PHG), one of the nation’s largest full-service physician placement firms, has recently expanded its recruitment services for mid-level practitioners, also known as advanced medical practitioners. Along with its integrated locum tenens, training and consulting, recruitment outsourcing, industry-leading job board and database services, PHG now offers a broader range of […]
Locum Tenens Still a Growing Industry, Says New Surveys
The current shortage of physicians and a renewed emphasis on retention have kept healthcare groups and their financial leaders focused on filling vacant practices. The locum tenens industry has indeed benefited from the ever-changing healthcare industry over the years in that healthcare groups see it as a more and more viable staffing alternative. Locum tenens, […]
Hybrid Hospitalists?
Innovations in the medical field and the steady growth and demand of hospitalists have brought a new paradigm about medical specialties and how doctors want to get involved with patient care. What does this mean for physicians and hospitals? Hospital medicine has driven most of PCPs’ growth, and it’s no wonder that 500-bed and even […]
Physician Online Communication Trends from PHG’s Quick Poll on Social Networking
Atlanta, GA, August 2011–Pinnacle Health Group’s 2011 Social Networking Survey has shown trends in the way that physicians are utilizing social networking. The survey, which was given to 5,000 doctors (with a minimum of 5% response rate), explored physician social networking and online job searching habits. The survey was deployed over three months and sent […]
How can Social Media Help in Physician Recruiting?
Physician recruiting remains remarkably competitive, and the significant changes made in the healthcare industry have opened up new opportunities for physicians, recruiters and healthcare groups to communicate. Social media comes to mind. With three out four Americans and two thirds of global online audience accessing social networking sites, the increasing use of websites like Facebook, […]
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