With mental health issues being the most common health problem faced by every 1 out of 5 Americans, the escalating prevalence of mental health disorders in the U.S. is driving a rapidly growing demand for medical professionals specializing in behavioral health as the behavioral health market skyrockets by a CAGR rate of 5.3% through 2027, as projected by Precendence Research. Utilizing locum tenens behavioral health providers to staff your healthcare facility is a proactive method of filling upcoming gaps in coverage at your healthcare organization.

Our skilled recruiters connect hundreds of top behavioral health physicians, psychologists, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants with an inclusive mix of healthcare institutions throughout the U.S. every month. Barton’s vast network of over 25,000 behavioral health locums enables our teams to efficiently fulfill your unique staffing needs with the best locum medical providers across the country.

The expansive pool of behavioral health locums built by our experienced teams is inclusive of MDs, DOs, PsyDs, NPs, and PAs specializing in a broad range of fields, and our recruiters work hard every day to expand our database of talented locum tenens professionals so we can be sure that whenever our clients are seeking out behavioral health coverage, that Barton has their backs.

Being a top locum tenens agency and leader in the healthcare staffing industry, Barton’s national footprint gives our teams the capability to services clients across every U.S. timezone with unmatched support from every angle. As a Barton client, your account manager will serve as your single point of contact to simplify your staffing process, and will provide you with superior 1 on 1 support in order to identify the best candidates across every state in the country to fill your specific behavioral health staffing needs.

Made up of over 300 skilled recruiters, our candidate search teams work diligently to find only the most qualified behavioral health locums throughout the country while also taking the time to collect all of the most pertinent information needed to streamline your candidate search, as well as conducting comprehensive reference checks for each provider. While Barton’s recruiters are busy identifying top candidates to add to our behavioral health database, our risk team takes care in vetting each and every locum coming through our recruitment process by running thorough background checks.

Barton’s specialized in-house licensing and credentialing teams simplify the onboarding process by processing all of the required paperwork for getting the behavioral health locums you need through the doors of your facility and ready to work, while our experienced travel team organizes every travel and lodging accommodation needed to ensure that our locums are fully equipped to start their assignments as quickly and efficiently as possible.

We add new contacts to our client base every day, and since 2001, our behavioral health locums have been successfully placed in a broad range of different practice settings including:

When hiring a permanent behavioral health specialist, healthcare facilities are forced to pay for additional expenses on top of that provider’s salary, including but not limited to, benefits, signing bonuses, health insurance, and relocation fees. However, staffing with a locum tenens provider can save your healthcare organization up to $300,000 in expenses depending on your facility’s location!

The hiring process for full time behavioral health professionals also takes much longer than that of a locum provider, which means that as you search for a permanent candidate, your facility loses money due to gaps in patient care, low employee morale, interrupted workflow, as well as cost of lost referrals. With a locum tenens provider, your facility only needs to worry about salary, while we handle the rest!

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