Jackson Healthcare® leads with its mission of improving the delivery of patient care and the lives of everyone it touches.
As the parent company to many of the healthcare industry’s leading brands, it provides health systems, hospitals and care facilities of all types with innovative talent and workforce solutions to help ensure patients receive quality care when and where they need it.
Choosing the Right Healthcare Executive Search Strategy: A Practical Guide for Hiring Healthcare Executives
Choosing how to source executive leadership is as strategic as defining the role itself. This overview breaks down three distinct search models—internal, contingency and retained—highlighting how each aligns with organizational needs, candidate reach and long-term impact. Understanding these models helps leaders pair strategy with outcomes effectively.
Is Medicine Still a Calling? Exploring Physician Attitudes About Purpose in Medicine
This research explores the concept of purpose in medicine and its impact on how physicians feel about their jobs. More than 1,200 physicians and advanced practice providers answered questions about what led them to pursue the field of medicine — and what keeps them going. The goal of this research was to truly understand…is medicine still a calling?
Transforming Credentialing Collaboration
This case study highlights how credentialing collaboration enhances onboarding speed, compliance, and communication—and emphasizes how solving documentation complexity, regulatory hurdles, and communication gaps drives smoother provider placement and stronger operational reliability.
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EXECUTIVE SEARCH
- Choosing the Right Healthcare Executive Search Strategy: A Practical Guide for Hiring Healthcare Executives
Choosing how to source executive leadership is as strategic as defining the role itself. This overview breaks down three distinct search models—internal, contingency and retained—highlighting how each aligns with organizational needs, candidate reach and long-term impact. Understanding these models helps leaders pair strategy with outcomes effectively.
- Restoring Performance, Rebuilding Trust: Interim Leadership in Action
When leadership gaps erode staff morale and clinical performance, the right interim leader can catalyze cultural renewal and operational excellence. This case story chronicles how an urban university hospital leveraged interim leadership to reestablish trust, elevate performance metrics and even support a successful Magnet designation.
PHYSICIAN RECRUITMENT
- From Contract to Connection: How Authentic Relationships Foster Early-Career Physician Loyalty and Retention
This study about engagement, commitment and retention with physicians and administrative leaders maps the fault lines that move early-career physicians out of their first jobs so soon and asks a hard, practical question: how do medical groups turn a signed contract into a durable connection that keeps early-career physicians engaged from pre-boarding through the first years?
- Developing the Next Generation of Physician Executives
Physicians growing into organizational leaders is often seen as a vital step to help ensure clinical expertise is helping to guide hospitals, health systems and medical groups through operational changes and strategic shifts. While medical training emphasizes clinical expertise, leadership development often remains secondary. Today’s physicians must be equipped with leadership skills to play a unique role in bridging care standards and administrative priorities, giving their dyad partners in the C-suite a dynamic partner. Read more about this topic from findings in a recent study.
LOCUM TENENS
- Addressing Physician Shortages
This comprehensive look at the nation’s escalating physician shortage details how widespread gaps, especially in rural and underserved communities, are straining access, overwhelming providers, and threatening care continuity. Locum tenens is a critical solution, bridging specialty gaps across primary care, behavioral health and OB/GYN while expanding care coverage nationwide.
- Future-Forward Strategies for Rural and Urban Care Delivery Challenges
LocumTenens.com and MGMA surveyed healthcare leaders nationwide across geographic settings to assess current and anticipated organizational challenges; surface ongoing strategies for recruitment and retention, telehealth and emerging technologies; and bring awareness to unique factors motivating performance and care outcomes. In this report, find out about the different approaches necessary to meet the growing needs of patients and the evolving realities of the healthcare market.
- Locum Staffing Strategy for Healthcare Efficiency
Locum tenens staffing is evolving from a temporary fix to a strategic approach that boosts efficiency, reduces burnout and supports consistent patient care. Learn how locums is transforming from a reactive, stop‑gap measure into a proactive workforce strategy, strengthening operational efficiency, protecting staff well‑being and helping ensure consistent patient care.
- Survey Insights: What to Know About the Clinician Workforce Today
In this national report, in partnership with Advisory Board, LocumTenens.com examines the changing priorities of clinicians. Survey Insights: What to Know About the Clinician Workforce Today reveals key insights into clinicians’ values and priorities — where job satisfaction no longer guarantees retention, compensation is only part of the equation and priorities vary by role, age and employment model.
ANESTHESIA CONTROL
- The Hidden Economics of Anesthesia: Why CFOs Should Care More Than They Do
Understand how anesthesia—often treated as a clinical necessity rather than a financial lever—directly influences OR utilization, hospital margins, and long‑term sustainability, making it a mission critical focus area for CFOs and executive leadership.
- The Challenges of Anesthesia Coverage: A Growing Concern
Learn why anesthesia workforce shortages, burnout, and misaligned staffing models are increasingly disrupting surgical schedules, straining operations, and threatening patient access—requiring strategic, system‑level solutions from healthcare leaders.
WORKFORCE OPTIMIZATION
- Choosing the Right Healthcare Workforce Optimization Partner: A Case Study on Baptist Health
Many healthcare operations leaders take a cautious approach to bringing on new technology. Afterall, doing so means securing buy-in from all levels in the organization, training curves, new processes and unexpected road bumps. Read on, or watch this video, to learn about Baptist Health’s approach to streamlining and optimizing workforce management through a managed services provider (MSP), rather than a vendor management system (VMS) technology alone.
- How to Get the Most from Your Float Pool
With staffing shortages at crisis levels, healthcare organizations must rethink workforce optimization. This article explores how a well-managed float pool provides flexibility, cost savings, and improved patient care while reducing reliance on costly external agencies. Read on for the six critical steps to creating and maintaining an effective float pool.
Executive Search
Kirby Bates Associates delivers high-impact healthcare leadership, fast. Specializing in executive and nursing search, interim leadership and advisory solutions, it partners with hospitals, health systems and private equity-backed organizations. Clients gain leaders who fit their culture, advance strategic goals and drive measurable improvements in care quality, efficiency and performance. Kirby Bates Associates is part of the Jackson Healthcare family of companies. KirbyBates.com.
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Physician Recruitment
Jackson Physician Search is an industry leader in the permanent recruitment of physician executives, physicians and advanced practice providers for hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers and medical groups across the U.S. Its mission, rooted in four decades of service, is to always deliver what its promises. That’s why healthcare facilities rely on its expertise to find candidates who fit, succeed and stay. Jackson Physician Search is recognized for its track record of results built on client trust and transparency of processes and fees, and is part of the Jackson Healthcare family of companies. JacksonPhysicianSearch.com.
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Locum Tenens
Jackson and Coker Locum Tenens connects healthcare organizations of all sizes with physicians and advanced practitioners because we believe everyone deserves compassion and care. With 40+ years of fostering purposeful relationships, we transform lives through locum tenens staffing by combining unparalleled service and tailored solutions. Jackson and Coker Locum Tenens is part of the Jackson Healthcare family of companies. JacksonCoker.com.
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- Locum Staffing Strategy for Healthcare Efficiency
- Addressing Physician Shortages
- Physician Specialty Shortage Solutions
- Transform Credentialing Collaboration
LocumTenens.com specializes in optimizing healthcare staffing operations with flexible, hybrid and temporary placement of physicians, advanced practitioners, social workers and psychologists. With a presence in more than 90% of the nation’s top healthcare facilities and supporting 150 medical specialties, Since 1995, it has been dedicated to improving healthcare through innovative staffing solutions, connecting clients and clinicians to deliver exceptional and uninterrupted patient care. LocumTenens.com is part of the Jackson Healthcare family of companies. LocumTenens.com.
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Anesthesia Control
A trusted partner to hospitals and surgical centers nationwide, Premier Anesthesia is a single-specialty practice management company with over 25 years of experience in delivering high-quality anesthesia care, improving operational efficiency and strengthening financial performance. Start gaining better control of your anesthesia practice by visiting PremierAnesthesia.com. Premier Anesthesia is part of the Jackson Healthcare family of companies.
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Workforce Optimization
Venn Workforce Optimization is at the forefront of healthcare workforce management and resource optimization, delivering the market’s most advanced talent strategies and comprehensive workforce solutions. Designed by industry leaders, it addresses challenges that directly impact healthcare organizations through workforce optimization, program and supplier management, and integrated workforce technology. Venn drives a new perspective in the market and capacity to achieve optimal results by customizing workforce models specific to each client, from float pool management and schedule optimization to long-term labor mix strategy. Venn, a Jackson Healthcare company, is actively shaping the future of healthcare workforce optimization while delivering rapid, sustainable ROI. VennWorkforce.com.
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About
Jackson Healthcare is a trusted partner to healthcare executives seeking sustainable, high performance talent and workforce solutions. As the parent company of many of the industry’s leading brands, our mission is closely aligned with ACHE’s values: improving the delivery of patient care and the lives of everyone we touch.
Through innovative staffing, workforce optimization and clinical services, we help health systems, hospitals and care facilities of all types ensure consistent access to skilled professionals required for high-quality care. Our flexible staffing models and national network of expert providers and clinicians strengthen care continuity, bolster operational resilience and support fluctuating patient demand.
Serving more than 20 million patients annually, we drive measurable improvements in outcomes, experience and efficiency; connect healthcare professionals to meaningful temporary, contract and permanent roles; and support leaders in building stronger, healthier communities. Learn more at JacksonHealthcare.com.
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Tony Stajduhar
Senior Advisor
Jackson Healthcare
tony.stajduhar@jacksonhealthcare.com