Delta Locum Tenens announced today that it has been named to Inavero’s inaugural Best of Staffing™ list. Best of Staffing, presented in partnership with CareerBuilder, is the nation’s only client satisfaction award that recognizes exceptional client service in the staffing and recruiting industry. The 2010 Best of Staffing winners are truly set apart from the rest of the industry through their extraordinary level of client satisfaction.    

 

“We’re very excited to have Delta Locum Tenens make the inaugural Best of Staffing list based on our customer feedback.  It highlights our commitment to continually improve our customers’ experience with us as we work together to build long-term partnerships,” said Marc Bowles, chief marketing officer of The Delta Companies.

 

Staffing firms competing to make the Best of Staffing list underwent a rigorous client survey process followed by careful analysis of responses to determine satisfaction levels. Delta Locum Tenens received satisfaction ratings of 9 or 10 on a scale of 0 to 10 from over 69 percent of their clients, significantly higher than the industry’s average of 55 percent. Best of Staffing participants secured their place on the list by exceeding the national staffing industry benchmark for client satisfaction by more than 22 percent.  

“This is a time when clients of staffing firms can and should demand excellence from their recruiting partners,” Eric Gregg, managing partner of Inavero said. “The $86 billion staffing and recruiting industry currently puts more than 2.5 million people to work daily and has become a fundamental component of overall U.S. employment. Inavero’s Best of Staffing program presents an opportunity for firms to differentiate themselves from the rest of the industry, recognizes excellence, and also provides invaluable information about how to continue to meet and exceed client expectations.”

Inavero’s complete Best of Staffing list can be viewed at www.bestofstaffing.com. For more information about Inavero, visit www.inavero.com.  To learn more about Delta Locum Tenens, visit www.deltalocums.com.

About Inavero

Inavero designs and manages satisfaction surveys for a global list of clients in more than 15 countries, with 5 different languages represented. Inavero’s custom created technology platform gathers and reports staffing firm client and candidate satisfaction information through quick online surveys. Satisfaction feedback from more than 100,000 accounting, legal, and staffing firm clients and job candidates is analyzed by Inavero’s team. Inavero’s client feedback system protects more than $4.3 billion in professional service firm annual revenue.   Visit Inavero on the Web at: www.inavero.com.

 

About Delta Locum Tenens

Delta Locum Tenens is the temporary physician business unit of The Delta Companies, a recognized leader in healthcare staffing since 1997.  The Delta Companies offer permanent and temporary staffing solutions nationwide for physicians and allied healthcare professionals through four companies:  Delta Physician Placement, Delta Healthcare Placement, Delta Locum Tenens and Delta Flex Travelers.

Ashleigh Kent  |  Recruiting Consultant
(877) 456-2867 x4279  |  akent@deltalocums.com

Physicians entering into the locums world for the first time tend to have many questions and reservations. Rightly so, making any major change in career and lifestyle would warrant some concerns. One of the highlights of my job is showing the major advantages of being independently contracted and  being free to travel to different locations throughout the country.

The latest example of these advantages occurred with a new neurologist that applied to our company. She was looking for an opportunity to work half-time but still afford the same lifestyle. I told her this was definitely possible and the assignment that would allow the lifestyle she wanted would be in Nebraska.  Never visiting the state, or even the region, she was very reluctant. I explained that a huge benefit to locums was that she could try the facility for a short period of time. If she was unhappy for any reason, we could simply book her somewhere else the next time.

Upon submitting her and conducting a phone interview, we realized her mentor from residency that she lost touch with was the administrator at the facility! Six months later, she still loves traveling across the country for 2 weeks out of the month. She spends half the month with esteemed colleagues and has half the month to devote to family.

Rob Goin | Director of Marketing
(877) 456-2867 x4201  |  rgoin@deltalocums.com

Hospital medicine tops the list of assignments again this quarter, with a 63% increase versus one year ago.  Few primary care physicians make rounds today, so they’re turning inpatient care over to hospitalists. In addition, 28,000 or nearly a quarter of all internists have left primary care to become hospitalists due to Medicare/Medicaid cuts.  Approximately 60% of all U.S. hospitals and all managed care organizations directly employ or use hospitalists through a locum tenens agency.  Both the physician and facility benefit financially from a hospitalist program.  In the last year, providers experienced a 6% increase in hourly rates.  In addition, hospitalists working 26 weeks a year on a seven on/seven off schedule will generate $25,000-$35,000 more than in the same dynamic for a permanent position.  The trend will continue in 2010, as estimated demand will call for an additional 10,000 hospitalists nationwide.

This article appeared in the Market Trends section of the Q4 2009 Physician Recruiting Standard.  You can download The Standard at www.TDCpeople.com/Standard.

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Congratulations to our winners at last week's quarterly meeting!

 

Amy Daneke - Direct Services Support of the Quarter

 

Stephanie Glass - Recruiter of the Quarter

 

Mark Wise - Marketer of the Quarter

 

Rob Goin - The Delta Companies' Leader of the Quarter

Matt Houser, MBA  |  Recruiter Consultant
(214) 442-4276 |  mhouser@deltalocums.com

On 12/23/09 we learned that nearly 5 million doses of nasal spray (swine flu) vaccine had been recalled because they lose potency over time.  With this issue it is necessary to question the credibility of the vaccine and the manufacturer (MedImmune).  Also, where do rights the rights of citizens in their choice not to be vaccinated take precedent over a company, government or other entity that wants to require vaccinations?  Are we really being provided accurate information from a manufacturer that can’t even get its shelf life accurate, necessitating a mass recall?  Is the vaccine even strong enough to do what it claims?  Is the manufacturer just covering its own self interest?  Some groups want to make the vaccine mandatory for US citizens.  We should ask, is this necessary and is it a violation of our rights?
 
If we search “mandatory swine flu vaccinations” on yahoo or google, a disturbing amount of hits appear describing entities that want mandatory vaccinations.
This is a violation of rights, and other major countries such as Canada have struck down mandatory vaccinations.
Below is an example of this one such instance of the many internet hits.  
 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/25/AR2009092503854.html
 
Here are some basics about the swine flu vaccine and why it should not be mandatory:

• Scientific data suggests the vaccination is not as safe or effective as we are told.  The vaccine is not PROVEN safe or effective, and infections have occurred as a result of vaccinations.
• Secondary transmission of a live virus vaccine, may actually increase transmission of the virus.  It has 2.3 times more genetic mutability and added adjuvant toxicity than a natural virus because it includes Squalene, which has proven autoimmune and inflammatory effects.
• Based on scientific evidence, mass mandatory vaccinations with a highly mutable live virus could actually activate a real and lethal pandemic rather than prevent it.  
• Analysis from the British Medical Journal article titled, Influenza Vaccination: Policy Versus Evidence, presents evidence from a systematic review based on a metaanalysis of all the research that shows inactivated vaccines have little or no effect on preventing or minimizing the flu.
• Inconclusive scientific data as to the vaccines effectiveness is one reason the Canadian government chose to stop debate on making the swine flu vaccine mandatory.  All people still have a right, whether religious, constitutional  or medical, not to be vaccinated against their will.

So, the choice should be left to US Public as to whether they should be vaccinated or not given inconclusive evidence that this highly promoted vaccine is either effective, safe, or reliable in preventing spread of the virus.
 
Matt Houser, MBA  |  Recruiter Consultant
(214) 442-4276 |  Fax (215) 243-7228
Delta Locum Tenens  |  www.DeltaLocums.com <http://www.tdcpeople.com/>

Zach Worley  | Recruiting Consultant
(877) 456-2867 x4270  |  zworley@deltalocums.com

 

That’s right folks, it is blowing snow all across this country.  Last week it was the Northeastern US (maybe you saw snow piled up during the NFL games there).  It looks like the upper Midwest is going to get slammed this week.  What does this mean for facilities that use locums physicians?  It means being flexible with what it takes to get a doctor to a facility in a blizzard.  Just today we had to upgrade a physician’s rental car to a 4x4 so he could navigate his way through the white to get to the ER.  Doctors in four wheel drives… awesome.  

So if things have to change in the 11th hour due to weather, roll with the punches; there just might have to be a Jeep in the physician’s parking lot.

Whitney Muir |  Director of Risk Management
(877) 456-2867 x4228  |  wmuir@deltalocums.com

The internal revenue service has announced the new mileage reimbursement rate for 2010.  This year the mileage rate will be dropping from fifty five cents per mile in 2009, to fifty cents per mile for the 2010 year.  The change in rate as stated by the IRS is due in part by lower transportation costs as compared to a year ago.

[ IRS Announces 2010 Standard Mileage Rates - irs.gov ]

Justin Roark |  Senior Recruiting Consultant
(877) 456-2867 x4269  |  (214) 442-4269 (direct)  |  (215) 243-7228 (fax)
Delta Locum Tenens  |  www.DeltaLocums.com

From my three years of experience in the world of physician staffing I have found the true value in looking for the “silver lining.”  This poetic sentiment alludes that even the gloomiest outlook contains some hopeful or consoling aspect.  The everyday routine for anyone involved in medical staffing can be found to be stressful, fast paced and mundane at times.  I wanted to take the opportunity to share what fires my drive as a physician recruiter and allows me to find the reward required to not burn out.

This year I have had four of the locum tenens physicians that I represent find permanent placement through their locum’s assignments.  As a locum tenens recruiter you often represent your same physicians for an extended period of time and develop a good understanding of and friendship with the providers you consistently work with.  It is these connections that develop along the way that add a personal touch for both parties and a real sense of reward for the recruiter whenever they are able to make a difference in the life of our providers. One example of this that I would like to share dates back to a year and a half ago.

I first made contact with this particular physician when she had just completed her family medicine residency.  She was torn in attending a hospitalist fellowship due to the location and downtrodden community.  I was luckily from this region of the state and got her set up in a neighboring resort community that I had previously lived while in grad school.  We maintained contact throughout the following year although she had never sent in her credentialing packet to sign up to work locums.

I was persistent and finally got her to fax in the paperwork required a month before she completed her fellowship.  At this point she had informed me that she had a permanent opportunity lined up in Oregon but was not too excited to leave Texas.  She discussed her difficulty in local interviews since she was a family medicine trained hospitalist and Oregon was her only option at the time. I was pleased to finally have to opportunity to get to work with her and started searching for some in state hospitalist locums while her Oregon license was being processed.  I was able to get her accepted at a facility with an established hospitalist group for several shifts a month at a competitive hourly rate.

After working at the facility for her first round of shifts, I received an interesting phone call from her revealing they have offered her a permanent position.  This contract allowed for much higher annual income, better benefits and the opportunity to remain close to family and friends here in Texas.   The excitement in her voice and overall positive change in outlook said everything.  The gratitude she expressed and the knowledge that I was able to make a difference and positively impact a provider’s life is everything I need to walk in the office door every morning.  

With any situation in life it is often easy to fall in slums and let the stress of life become overwhelming.  Focusing on the “silver lining” and positive aspects will always carry you through.  I am a locum tenens physician recruiter and will jump at any opportunity to help a provider because you never know where that journey will end.  The potential benefits for providers far exceed any excuses for not trying.  

DALLAS, TEXAS – November 12, 2009 – The Delta Companies recently competed for the American Staffing Association’s VOICE (vision, originality, innovation, creativity, and effectiveness) awards, honoring the best communications campaigns in the staffing industry.  

The firm’s in-house advertising team took home 11 awards in eight categories and won Best of Show, given to the best overall single entry in each class.  The Delta Companies has taken the top honor twice in the last three years.  

The enterprise and each of The Delta Companies’ four healthcare staffing business units were recognized in the categories of print advertising, specialty advertising, multimedia, media relations, web site, public service, publication, and company identification.

No other staffing firm was honored with more awards in this year’s competition.  The Delta Companies has now won a total of 24 VOICE Awards in the last four years, including twice winning Best of Show.

ASA VOICE Awards winners were honored October 23rd at Staffing World® 2009, the ASA convention and expo, in Orlando, Florida.

For more information on The Delta Companies, please visit www.TDCpeople.com.

About The Delta Companies
The Delta Companies offer permanent and temporary staffing solutions nationwide for physicians and allied healthcare professionals through four companies:  Delta Physician Placement, Delta Healthcare Placement, Delta Locum Tenens and Delta Flex Travelers.

Contact:    Marc Bowles
Chief Marketing Officer, The Delta Companies
        Four Hickory Centre
        1755 Wittington Place, Suite 175
        Dallas, TX  75234
        (800) 521-5060 x4102
        PR@tdcpeople.com
        http://www.TDCpeople.com