ALPHARETTA, Ga., Aug. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. healthcare organizations are looking for more physicians than they were a year ago, according to a new survey.
Almost half of the physician recruiters responding to a recent online survey by recruiting firm LocumTenens.com reported they recruited more than 20 physicians in the past year.
This compares to 27 percent of respondents who reported that volume of physician-recruiting activity in summer 2005.
Forty percent of those surveyed said their organizations plan to spend more than $300,000 on physician recruitment in 2006, including 19 percent who said their organizations planned to spend more than $500,000 this year.
As the population ages, it will become increasingly difficult for healthcare organizations to find enough physicians to keep up with demand, company President David Roush said.
