This toolkit contains guidelines for health centers in the development, improvement or modification of a recruitment and retention plan. It is designed to be used in the context of a technical assistance site visit. MCN clinical staff piloted this process with two migrant health centers in 2003. Prior to...
Staff retention can be one of the most challenging aspects of any business, but even more so for administrators of community health centers and clinics. For those clinics located in rural areas, the challenges are compounded by their distance away from medical schools. Many factors account for the challenges,...
This tool proves a high-level overview of things to do before a new clinician arrives at your site, as well as a checklist for building an effective onboarding and orientation program.
This paper provides background on how Health Centers can partner with academic institutions or residency programs to offer service learning programs at Health Centers and thereby foster interest in Health Center careers among the next generation of oral health professionals. The paper explores different collaboration models and provides suggestions about issues for Health Centers to consider when...
NACHC has a long-standing partnership with A.T. Still University (ATSU) to educate, train, and recruit high-quality, community-minded healers–physicians and dentists–for health centers. This partnership includes a strategy to recruit applicants from populations served by Community Health Centers. Twice yearly, NACHC requests health center leaders to consider patients, employees, and...
This very basic checklist will help you start planning the full orientation for a new physician at your health center. Physician Orientation Checklist
While this resource is not specific to hiring providers, it offers relevant information about developing or enhancing a veterans hiring intiative at your organization.
3RNet works to improve rural and underserved communities’ access to quality health care through recruitment of physicians and other health care professionals, development of community based recruitment and retention activities, and national advocacy relative to rural and underserved health care workforce issues. 3RNet works through its 53 members to...
This nationally-linked job board is a great resource to post your open positions and connect with clinicians looking for the right position.
This tool, part of the Recruitment, Onboarding, & Retention Toolkit, helps you calculate the costs of turnover at your health center. Although the costs of staff turnover can be difficult to calculate and, strictly speaking, do not appear as a line item your health center’s books, they are real...
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