Recruitment and Retention in a Tight Market for Anesthesia Providers

Summary: Recruitment and retention in a tight market for anesthesia providers is a compendium to help you navigate rocky waters of recruiting and retaining staff in a challenging hiring environment.

This compendium is focused on some of the more subtle elements of retention, such as building a supportive culture, developing flexible scheduling and compensation, offering support and training to colleagues who are suffering from burnout and perhaps displaying disruptive behavior, offering flexible staffing models, measuring productivity, engaging in proactive conversations about addressing underutilized anesthetizing locations and being a leader in helping health systems determine appropriate coverage when traditional anesthesia resource options are unavailable.

Chapters include information regarding:

• Building a Culture that Fosters Retention in a Difficult Staffing Market
• Prioritizing Wellness and Ensuring Civility to Improve Retention
• Flexible scheduling
• Developing an Optimal Staffing Model Amidst a Staffing Shortage
• Having the Difficult Conversation with Your Facility about Reasonable Staffing Expectations for Underutilized Services
• How to Address Shortages of Clinical Staff to Meet Patient, Provider and Health System Needs
• Flexible Compensation Systems
• Valuing Individual and Group Work in Anesthesiology – Meaningful Productivity Benchmarking
• Structuring a Flexible Benefits Program
• W2 Employee vs. 1099 Contractor: An Employee and Employer Perspective