Kim Collins, CMSR is the Senior Physician Recruiter for Anne Arundel Medical Group.
Kim has over 25 years in healthcare marketing, budgeting, sales, compensation/incentive planning, management, physician relations, acquisitions, communications and provider recruitment and retention. Her moto is recruit to retain with excellent results of building relationships and maintaining those relations which are key to a successful and robust physician recruitment and services program.
- If someone is in healthcare recruitment right now, what is your advice to them during this virus season?
- Stay focused and understand that everyone is under pressure.
- Be patient with and understanding towards the providers who are not getting back to you regarding their recruitment process
- Embrace technology
- As someone heavily involved in healthcare recruitment, what are your biggest concerns right now?
- Some of the searches are going to be postponed indefinitely
- Candidates that are in the pipeline we might have to hold on the hiring
- Budget will be decreased
- Furloughing of team
- Priority for all our urgent needs
- Going against the other local hospitals for these temp providers
- Working with locums firms
- How do you best make video interviewing replace ‘in person’ interviewing?
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- Zoom interviews – both for interviews and reviewing benefits
- Asking Medical Director to use their phone to do a tour with the candidate
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- How do you think healthcare recruitment will change once we are on the other side of this virus season?
- Worried our organizations (local and national ) will have a hard time recovering
- Afraid we could lose medical professionals or at least the number of new providers could decrease
- Providers
- Nurses
- RT
- Streamlined Interview process
- Technology will be used more
- Less Flights/hotels/expenses
NP Now is a search firm for NPs, PAs, MDs, RNs and CRNAs, located in Charleston, South Carolina and serving clients in all 50 states. We recruit for permanent placements in all clinical settings.