News Archive

September 15, 2015 - North Shore-LIJ Health System announced it would drop the references to its origins in its name as the system rapidly expands. [ more ]

September 14, 2015 – Alpha assisted four Physicians in securing new positions last week. If you are searching for a new practice opportunity or are looking to add staff, you should be working with us. [ more ]

September 9, 2015 - Stop by and see us at the CareerMD Career Fair in New York City on October 8th or in Hartford on October 21st. [ more ]

September 9, 2015 - Last December, I applied for a position at a big technology firm. The description indicated that the job was based at its California headquarters. I live in another state, but the company also has a large campus nearby. [ more ]

September 8, 2015 – Now that Summer has ended, Alpha is gearing up for a busy Fall.  With this in mind, we have added additional team members.  Welcome Catherine, Amy and Leigh. [ more ]

September 3, 2015 - Physician assistants have many opportunities to improve the patient experience but aren't typically part of the discussion when it comes to value-based payment models, according to a blog post on Health Affairs. [ more ]

August 31, 2015 - A ruling Thursday by the National Labor Relations Board could complicate relations between healthcare organizations and their workers employed by staffing agencies. [ more ]

August 27, 2015 - Experts recommend measuring total patient harm rate. Although the hospital industry largely tracks care quality and patient safety by measuring individual adverse event rates, monitoring a hospital's total patient harm rate could be far more effective, according to Hospitals & Health Networks. [ more ]

August 24, 2105 – As the summer winds down, physician placements are heating up.  The Radiology market has improved slightly, Surgery continues to boom as does Primary Care. [ more ]

August 20, 2015 - North Shore-LIJ Health System has finalized a partnership with Brooklyn's Maimonides Medical Center as the suburban New York giant extends its reach into the city. [ more ]

August 17, 2015  - Good relations also reduce risk of malpractice suits.

Doctor empathy is a vital but often overlooked aspect of care delivery--and as patient satisfaction becomes more important, hospitals are increasingly training physicians to understand their patients as well as treat them. [ more ]

August 12, 2015 - The addition of four simple words to Atlantic Health System's mission statement did more than just make the mission statement longer: It sparked a change that ultimately improved the patient and staff experience. [ more ]

August 4, 2015 - Community Health Systems plans to shed 38 hospitals, most of them in small markets, and shift its focus to large markets and regional networks. The hospitals and a consulting subsidiary will be spun off into a new publicly traded company. [ more ]

August 3, 2015 – Three physicians placed this week.  If you are looking to hire a physician, or an APRN you should be speaking with us! [ more ]

July 30, 2015 - Nurse practitioners and physician assistants are a fast-growing part of the medical marketplace, getting paid more often for procedures people generally associate with doctors, such as electrocardiograms, pelvic exams and even helping with heart bypasses, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data finds. [ more ]

July 29, 2015 - The historically low growth rates of national health spending over the last several years may be history. CMS officials say the Affordable Care Act's insurance expansion, an improving economy, an aging population, and expensive new drugs are pushing up health costs once again. [ more ]

July 28, 2015 – Demand for Psychiatrist and Family Medicine Physicians continue to soar.  A practice in North Carolina and an Academic Facility in New York each have a new physician on staff. [ more ]

July 23, 2015 - UnitedHealth Group, Anthem have invested in clinical care.  Some of the country's major health insurers are showing that health systems aren't the only industry players expanding their reach into the booming urgent care business, Forbes reports. [ more ]

July 20, 2015 - Texas and Wisconsin will be home to two Physicians who signed contracts last week. [ more ]

July 16, 2015 - Barnabas Health and Robert Wood Johnson Health System plan to combine their 11 hospitals to form New Jersey's largest health system. Along with another pending deal, it would consolidate the majority of hospital care in central New Jersey in two health systems. [ more ]

July 15, 2015 - When the founding investors in Ingenious Med, developer of a popular patient-encounter platform for clinicians, recently cashed out, the company's executives recapitalized with a traditional venture capital firm. But they also included capital from venture funds run by several not-for-profit health systems that use the company's products. [ more ]

July 14, 2015 – Jonathan Brett has joined our team at Alpha Medical and will be assisting Psychiatrists and Nurse Practitioner candidates with their job searches. [ more ]

July 7, 2015 - JAMA Pediatrics survey finds 8 in 10 clinicians won't call in sick due to staffing concerns, pressure to produce.  Although they know the risks it poses to patients, most doctors and advanced practice clinicians (APCs) admit they go to work when sick, according to a new survey published in JAMA Pediatrics. [ more ]

June 30, 2015 - Affinity, a 156-bed hospital owned by Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems, has two mobile patient lifts to move immobile patients, as well as other devices to help with moving patients who are able to move partly on their own, officials at the hospital said. At many hospitals, however, lifts and other patient-moving devices either aren't available or aren't immediately accessible. [ more ]

June 29, 2015 – A Primary Care Physician and a Radiologist have accepted positions with new practices with the help of Alpha Medical Group. [ more ]

June 25, 2015 - Landmark King v. Burwell ruling saves coverage for more than 6M Americans [ more ]

June 24, 2015 - Organizational drive to reduce costs can create conflicts with care decisions.  Healthcare leaders who want support from their physicians must step up efforts to involve them in key decisions, according to an opinion piece in Forbes. [ more ]

June 19, 2015 – An Interventional Radiologist, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Urologist and Academic Hospitalist will all be joining new practices shortly thanks to Alpha recruiters. [ more ]

June 18, 2015 - The financial benefit that not-for-profit hospitals receive from their tax-exempt status has doubled over the past decade. Yet most of those funds aren't being spent on improving community health, a new study found. [ more ]

June 12, 2015 – Congratulations to our Psychiatry Department who has placed their 275th Healthcare Professional. [ more ]

June 8, 2015 - After stagnant period, sector grew 14 of 15 months.  As the healthcare field enjoys a hiring boom, job security is especially good for physicians and nurse practitioners (NPs), according to the Chicago Tribune. [ more ]

June 3, 2015 - A small segment of physicians who enter hospital employment contracts are beginning to change their minds and return to private practice. In some parts of the country, however, broad noncompete agreements can severely limit physicians' practice mobility later in their careers. [ more ]

June 2, 2015 - Clinics do more than simply serve the underserved.  Even as the federal government has set aside $101 million to build new community health centers across the country, these clinics' roles and reputations appear to be evolving beyond their traditional definition. [ more ]

June 1, 2015 – Two Physicians started their summer by accepting new positions with a little help from Alpha Medical Group. [ more ]

May 22, 2015 – Great week for all departments at Alpha Medical Group. [ more ]

May 21, 2015 - Three of the top academic hospital systems in the U.S. plan to limit low-volume surgeries and will no longer allow surgeons to perform procedures unless they have sufficient experience, according to U.S. News & World Report. [ more ]

May 19, 2015 - On March 31, for-profit Parkway Regional Hospital in Fulton closed its doors after more than two decades of business in southwestern Kentucky. Rural Fulton County's only hospital employed nearly 200 and accounted for as much as 18% of the town's tax base. [ more ]

May 12, 2015 - Nine Florida hospitals have agreed to pay $6.2 million to settle allegations that they led ambulance companies to bill federal health programs for medically unnecessary rides, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida announced Friday. [ more ]

May 8, 2015 - In survey, chief experience officers also cite importance of data transparency.  As patient experience officers become an increasingly important part of hospital operations, healthcare organizations also have started to give physician leaders and health information technology (IT) bigger roles in the process, according to a survey of chief experience officers from Experience Innovation Network. [ more ]

May 6, 2015 - HCA, the largest hospital chain by revenue, will increase its capital spending over the next three years to make room for the additional patients it is seeing thanks to market share gains and healthcare reform. [ more ]