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|Videos|March 3, 2023
Staffing challenges: A human resources perspective
Author(s)Richard Payerchin, Logan Lutton
A health system chief ambulatory officer talks about finding – or not finding – doctors in early 2023.
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So far 2023 is like 2022 for finding staff – or not finding staff. Veronica Villareal, MHA/MBA, chief ambulatory officer for DHR Health in Texas, talks about the difficulty in finding physicians to open a new hospital in the Rio Grande Valley area.
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