Project Description
Physician Recruitment & Medical Staff Development
OR Efficiencies Helps You Meet the Challenge of Physician Recruitment
One of the greatest challenges for hospitals wanting to sustain and increase market share is the ability to recruit and retain physicians with the skills, training and personality to attract patients and develop patient confidence. As surgery evermore becomes a minimally invasive discipline, patients’ expectations are that your hospital will have highly trained specialists that are comfortable performing procedures in a minimally invasive manner. Young and growing families settle for nothing less than the finest perionatal, obstetrical, neonatal, and pediatric care.
Most hospitals’ centers of excellence are founded on orthopedic, cardiac, neurosurgery and oncology / oncological surgery and health and wellness programs. Further, a correct balance of highly trained medical specialists, with confidence in a hospital’ surgical staff, is required to generate referrals to surgeons.
For many years, having well trained physicians has been fundamental to garner market share. Today, however, and specifically for hospitals’ surgical programs, the ability to balance anesthesiology staffing with surgical case potential is an ever increasing challenge.
The American Society of Anesthesiology continues to affirm that there is a sizeable shortage of anesthesiologists and CRNAs to staff hospitals’ and ASCs’ programs. Regardless of a hospitals excellence in medicine and surgery, a shortage of anesthesia staff can and does restrict a hospitals’ ability to grow the business.
SHG clients include major healthcare systems, hospitals, medical schools, groups and resort facilities nationally. Recruitment assignments have been for chairpersons, chiefs, directors and staff physicians in all specialties. Stanton Healthcare Group also consults with physicians on career planning in and out of clinical practice.
Stanton Healthcare Group
Judith Stanton, Founder & Principal
Judith Stanton is founder and principal of Stanton Healthcare Group (SHG) located in New York City. Established in 1972, SHG provides hospitals and healthcare systems with physician recruitment and manpower development programs. SHG also fulfills executive and physician needs for hotels, resorts and spas on an international basis.
Ms. Stanton is a frequent presenter and nationally recognized expert on healthcare issues. As such, she is often quoted as a source of authority. Topics have included:
- Medical staff development and hospital/physician transactions
- New hospital physician relations and the role human resource can play
- Successful physician succession planning, how to retain your market share
- When to advertise for physicians and when not to
- Assuring the continuity of patient flow through medical staff planning
- Effective physician recruitment & succession planning; anticipating opportunities and acting responsively
- Medical Spa planning, design, development, operations management
Ms. Stanton is often quoted as a source of authority and has authored many articles for leading healthcare publications; Trustee, MGMA and Family Practice Management among them. She has also authored an article on alternative medicine physicians published by the premiere publication of the spa industry. Additional information about SHG and services can be obtained by visiting www.StantonHealthcareGroup.com
Client Testimonials
My hospitals department of anesthesiology was falling apart due to stresses of the operating room.We lost a number of doctors and I feared losing my CRNAs because of our issues. Jerry personally assisted me to bring stability to the anesthesiology program and his team improved OR efficiencies and general operations so that now we're able to recruit and retain highly skilled anesthesia staff.
CEO - major Mid-Atlantic healthcare system- The consulting team assisted our surgeons to realize that they must be part of developing solutions, not simply to expect administration to provide them a perfect world.
Now our surgeons and anesthesiologists are actively engaged, police themselves and have a higher level of satisfaction with our ORs being much more efficient.
Surgeon and OR Committee Chair - major Northeastern medical center - The hospital CEO and the dean made it my responsibility to fix the OR without holding any other parties accountable.
Our anesthesiology program was greatly in deficit due to the staffing costs associated with a terribly inefficient OR. I was losing faculty and could not recruit to our program due to the imbalance of work-load and compensation package. Jerry brought facts and education. He assisted in mediating our relationships and educated us on how to move forward. The assistance Jerry provided me and my program assisted me not only to improve our present situation and be successful in my position but also to move on in my own career.
Department of Anesthesiology Chair - then serving at a mid-Atlantic University program having moved on to Department Chair at a prestigious Southwestern University. - I moved to another CEO position and didn’t realize the disrepair our OR program was in until after I started.
I lost the contact information and spent hours tracking them down after nearly ten years. They were there for me and assisted me through another difficult situation.
CEO - Northeastern community medical center 
Jerry assisted me to bring stability to the anesthesiology program and his team improved OR efficiencies and general operations. . .My hospitals department of anesthesiology was falling apart due to stresses of the operating room. We lost a number of doctors and I feared losing my CRNAs because of our issues. "Jerry assisted me to bring stability to the anesthesiology program and his team improved OR efficiencies and general operations so that now we're able to recruit and retain highly skilled anesthesia staff."
CEO - major Mid-Atlantic healthcare system- Jerry Ippolito’s team assisted our surgeons to realize that they must be part of developing solutions,
not simply to expect administration to provide them a perfect world. Now our surgeons and anesthesiologists are actively engaged, police themselves and have a higher level of satisfaction with our ORs being much more efficient.
Surgeon and OR Committee Chair - major Northeastern medical center - Jerry, the services and education you provided my department and administration proved to be invaluable in resolving differences and developing solutions.
Before we started the engagement I thought my anesthesiology department was going to implode; you spread oil on troubled waters.
Highly published Chair of Anesthesiology - Midwestern University Hospital System - Our surgeons wanted to develop their own ASC until Ippolito and his team showed us that a community hospital OR can be as efficient as a surgery center.
Surgeon satisfaction improved and the surgeons continued to support the hospital.
Chief Nursing Officer - rural Midwestern community hospital - Their team made me feel good and part of the solution. . .
and never threatened in my position. I learned a lot and value the experience. I feel like we're friends.
Director of Surgical Services - major Northeastern medical center - “I’ve worked with Jerry Ippolito for over fifteen years. . .
Not only has he always been there to guide me through challenging situations, but he is a person of the highest integrity I've met in the business world.
Exec VP Operations - major Midwestern medical center