Physician Recruitment and Your Center: Four Questions to Consider

4 - Q: When Should I Start?

A: Physician recruiting should be an ongoing process. And to be effective, you need to start before it’s too late. Your center should always be recruiting physicians, either directly or indirectly, as long as you have the capacity to support additional procedures, new specialties and more doctors. Adding new physicians and specialties to your center will help you better serve your local community, expand your patient base, maximize your center’s operations and improve partner and patient satisfaction.

Bottom line: if your center isn’t currently working to recruit additional physicians or at least considering it, you need to start before it’s too late.

Ongoing physician recruitment is essential for centers of all sizes and stages. Help your center proactively stay ahead of the game by constantly looking out for new specialty and physician additions that could help make your center more efficient, productive and profitable.

Marc Jang is president and CEO of Titan Health Corporation, a nationwide surgery center development, acquisition and management company. Jang can be reached at (916) 614-3600.