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    Textbook of Urgent Care Management: Chapter 19, Hiring and Managing Medical Providers
    Textbook of Urgent Care Management: Chapter 19, Hiring and Managing Medical Providers
    Textbook of Urgent Care Management: Chapter 19, Hiring and Managing Medical Providers
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    Textbook of Urgent Care Management: Chapter 19, Hiring and Managing Medical Providers

    By John Shufeldt

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    The Textbook of Urgent Care Management is now offering individual chapters for sale. The full book, provides an expert business consulting guide to potential or existing urgent care clinic owners, managers & operators as well as investors. Learn how to more effectively run your immediate care or walk-in center as well as start incorporating urgent care services into your existing primary care practice. The chapters cover valuable information from industry experts on how to start, manage, and even sell your urgent care center.

    Chapter 19 includes:

    The Physician Shortage

    Hiring Quality Providers

    Locum Tenens

    Search Firms
    - Retained Agreements
    - Contingency Agreements

    Going It on Your Own

    Resources to Find Providers
    - Physician Job Boards
    - Midlevel Job Boards

    Post-hiring Challenges

    Dealing with the Disruptive Provider
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateMar 15, 2014
    ISBN9781940288437
    Textbook of Urgent Care Management: Chapter 19, Hiring and Managing Medical Providers
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    John Shufeldt

    John Shufeldt is a serial student, an indefatigable change agent and a multidisciplinary entrepreneur who has studied the traits and qualities of extraordinary individuals for over three decades. In Ingredients of Outliers John guides us through a number of traits common to outliers and inspires us leave our comfort zones to join their ranks.John received his BA from Drake University in 1982 and his MD from the University of Health Sciences/ The Chicago Medical School in 1986. He completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at Christ Hospital and Medical Center in 1989 where he spent his final year as Chief Resident. John received his MBA in 1995, and his Juris Doctorate in 2005, both from Arizona State University. He is admitted to the State Bar in Arizona, the Federal District Court, and Supreme Court of the United States.He has started numerous health and non-health care businesses and continues to practice emergency medicine and law. He writes and lectures on a variety of subject matters to graduate medical, business and law students. He is an adjunct professor at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of law where he teaches a clinic on Health Law Entrepreneurism. He serves on the Drake University Board of Trustees and the Sandra Day O’Conner College of Law Alumni Board.You can find more information out about John and his work at www.ingredientsofoutliers.com

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      Textbook of Urgent Care Management - John Shufeldt

      CHAPTER 19

      Hiring and Managing Medical Providers

      John Shufeldt

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      CHAPTER 19

      Hiring and Managing Medical Providers

      John Shufeldt

      WITHOUT THE RIGHT MEDICAL provider, an urgent care clinic can struggle and even fail. This chapter discusses challenges in hiring and managing medical providers.

      THE PHYSICIAN SHORTAGE

      In 1997, the federal government placed a cap on Medicare funding of hospital residency training programs. Since the cap was put in place, the number of physicians trained in the United States has grown only marginally, whereas population size and population aging have increased significantly, driving up demand for physician services. This has also fueled the demand for midlevel providers.

      The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) believes that by 2025, the United States will face a shortfall of nearly 160,000 physicians, of which more than 50,000 are in primary-care specialties. According to the AAMC, the Affordable Care Act will increase the shortage by 31,000 physicians. The American Academy of Family Physicians projects a global deficit of 149,000 physicians by 2020, and the US Health Resources and Services Administration projects a shortage of 65,000 primary-care physicians by the same year.

      Moreover, a study published in JAMA by Staiger

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