Healthcare organizations are facing a difficult reality: clinician shortages continue to grow, demand for care continues to rise, and the timelines required to recruit physicians and advanced practice providers leave little room for reactive decision-making.
At the same time, retention, engagement, workforce planning, and recruitment are often managed as separate conversations, even though they are deeply connected.
As healthcare workforce challenges intensify, a new question is emerging:
What if HR and talent leaders could anticipate workforce needs before vacancies occur?
Leading organizations are beginning to rethink the role of HR and talent acquisition, moving beyond filling open positions toward a more strategic model that connects recruitment, retention, engagement, succession planning, and long-term capacity strategy.
In this panel discussion, healthcare HR and physician recruitment leaders will explore how workforce strategy is evolving and what it will take to become more predictive in the years ahead.
We’ll discuss:
- How recruitment and retention are becoming increasingly interconnected
- The role of HR and talent leaders in workforce planning, service line growth, and capacity strategy
- How organizations are partnering with operations, strategy, and clinical leadership to anticipate future workforce needs
- The potential for predictive data and workforce intelligence to identify emerging risks before vacancies occur
- How leading organizations are thinking about provider engagement, burnout, and retention as part of recruitment strategy
- Why the most successful organizations may focus not only on being competitive, but on becoming more attractive places to practice
- What the future of physician and provider recruitment could look like as new data and technologies become available
Because every vacancy affects more than staffing.
It affects patient access, organizational growth, financial performance, and the long-term health of the communities we serve.
The organizations that thrive will be those that can see workforce challenges coming and act before they arrive.
• Julie Mueller, Vice President, Talent Acquisition & Hospital Based Provider Recruitment, OSF HealthCare
• Allan Cacanindin, Vice President, Physician and Provider Recruitment, SSM Health
• Melissa Love, System Vice President, Professional Staff Services and the Office of Professional Well-Being, Ochsner Health
• Tiffany Chan, CEO, Atalan (Moderator)