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Permanent and Temporary Physician Staffing

When you partner with AMN Healthcare, you get trustworthy, compatible and cost-effective physician and advanced practice staffing services. Our team is made up of multiple teams of placement experts, licensing and credentialing specialists and clinical support professionals dedicated to the services and solutions that allow you to focus on what matters most – providing excellent patient care.

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Two Leaders Become One

Your Career, Your Life

Two of our legacy businesses, leaders in the Physician staffing industry, are becoming one. As you may be aware, Merritt Hawkins and Staff Care are both AMN Healthcare brands. As a valued healthcare professional or you're in need of physician staffing, we're here for you.

  • Looking to grow your physician journey? Search for your next Permanent or Locum Tenens physician job today.
  • Looking for locum tenens staffing or physician placement? Learn more how we can efficiently address your physician staffing needs across a variety of practice settings.

Physician Staffing

Reliable. Innovative. Physician Staffing Solutions.

Whether you need locum tenens staffing, which you may know as Staff Care, or permanent physician placement through Merritt Hawkins,® we can efficiently address your physician staffing needs across a variety of practice settings.

  • Customizable solutions: We have a full suite of physician placement services to flex your needs
  • Integrate easily: We take the time to learn your business and be a strategic partner and adviser
  • Everything is covered: Permanent placement, locum tenens, part-time contracts
  • Growth & Expansion: We offer physician needs assessments
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2023 Physician and AP Recruiting Incentives

AMN Healthcare’s 2023 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives reveals a number of trends within
the physician and AP recruiting market, including:

  • Nurse practitioners (NPs) topped the list of AMN Healthcare’s most requested search engagements for the third consecutive year.
  • Average salary offers made to NPs were up 9% year-over-year.
  • Average starting salary offers in primary care were either flat or down year-overyear.
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Permanent Physician Placement

Tailored Searches. Thoroughly-vetted Candidates.

Our team, which you may know as Merritt Hawkins®, focuses on the specific skills and expertise needed for long-term success; tapping into our deep pool of candidates. We will tailor each search to meet the needs of your practice or facility, and partner with you to place the ideal physician candidate.

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Locum Tenens Medical Staffing

AMN Healthcare is Your Partner to Maintain Quality of Care and Revenue

  • Our locum tenens physician staffing solutions, which you may know as Staff Care, help to maintain the highest level of patient care while avoiding costly provider shortages.
  • We have a strict candidate screening process.
  • Our recruiters source from the largest pool of locum tenens physicians, physician assistants (PA), nurse practitioners (NP), and certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNA).
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Physician Staffing Services Meets Innovative Workforce Solutions

Recruitment. Staffing. Managed Services.

We can help solve your next healthcare recruitment, staffing, or workforce challenge. We have a full suite of customizable solutions for healthcare workforce planning, including Managed Services Programs to Recruitment Solutions. Our expertise supports your strategic initiatives via:

  • Physician Compensation Design & Benchmarking Analysis
  • Dynamic Medical Staff Development Planning
  • Activating Physician Leaders
  • Physician Talent Acquisition Organizational Design

Request Physician Staffing

Are you a candidate interested in working with us? Visit our Careers Page. For urgent issues, please call (866) 871-8519.

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