LocumTenens.com: Physician Recruiting Agency Launches Surgery Division
LocumTenens.com, a leading physician recruiting firm, today signaled its continued growth in 2005 with the official start-up of its Surgery Division
Atlanta, Ga (PRWEB via PR Web
Direct) January 5, 2005 -- LocumTenens.com, a leading physician recruiting
firm, today signaled its continued growth in 2005 with the official start-up of
its Surgery Division. Former LocumTenens.com Major Accounts Manager Will
Drescher heads the new surgery group, which recruits and places general and
orthopedic surgeons to fill physician staffing gaps for hospitals and medical
groups nationwide, LT.com President David Roush said.
“We’re ‘specialists
in a handful of specialties’ with increasing focus on the OR (operating room),
so this move makes perfect sense for us,” Roush said. “With his experience in
recruiting physicians and building a major accounts program for our company,
Will has a running start in understanding client needs for qualified
surgeons.”
Physician Specialty Needs Growing
Roush said
LocumTenens.com’s new specialty focus results from the firm’s ongoing assessment
of needs in the U.S. healthcare. “The number of surgical procedures will grow
rapidly over the next 15 years—especially after 2011 when the first baby boomers
turn 65. Meanwhile, residency programs continue to graduate a fairly constant
number of surgeons,” Roush said. One 2003 study at UCLA projected that from the
time of an unlikely 10-percent increase in the number of surgery slots, it would
take 20 years to increase the number of practicing surgeons by five percent, he
noted.
Consistent with the UCLA study, statistics from the American
Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons® indicate the number of orthopedic surgeons per
100,000 people in the U.S. grew less than one percent between 1990 and
2002.
Mobilizing to Meet Demand
“The demand for qualified general and
orthopedic surgeons definitely is there,” Drescher said. “With assistance from
our free physician job board and our strong anesthesiology network, we’re
confident we’ll become a leader in surgeon staffing solutions for hospitals and
medical groups very quickly.”
A graduate of University of Central Florida
in Orlando, Drescher gained several years of sales and management experience
with Headhunter.net and the Hertz Corporation before joining LocumTenens.com.
During his three years of recruiting and placing physicians and CRNAs for his
current employer, Drescher developed a number of large, preferred-vender
relationships with hospitals and medical groups across the
country.
Founded in 1995, LocumTenens.com is a physician recruiting firm
specializing in the high-demand fields of anesthesiology, radiology, psychiatry,
general surgery and orthopedic surgery. LocumTenens.com is part of the Jackson
Healthcare Solutions family of companies, named to Inc. magazine’s 23rd annual
Inc. 500 ranking of the fastest growing U.S. private companies in 2004. To learn
more, visit the company's web site at www.locumtenens.com or www.CRNAJobs.com.
Contact:
Billie
Wickstrom
678-992-1247
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