As demand for primary care professionals skyrockets by about 22.5% through 2030 as estimated by The Health Resources and Services Administration, the supply of medical providers specializing in family medicine is only projected to grow by about 7.3% in the forecasted period, creating a dramatic disparity between the amount of primary care specialists entering the workforce, and the need for their services across the nation. Staffing with locum tenens primary care providers is a proactive approach to ensure all upcoming gaps in coverage at your organization are filled.

Barton’s dedicated recruiting team connects hundreds of skilled primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants with a diverse range of healthcare facilities throughout the U.S. every month. Our expansive network of over 130,000 primary care locum professionals gives us the ability to efficiently fulfill your unique staffing needs with top-quality medical providers.

Barton’s vast pool of primary care locums is inclusive of MDs, DOs, NPs, and PAs specializing in a wide array of fields, and our recruiters continuously work to grow our database of family medicine locums every day to make certain that when our clients are in need of primary care coverage, that we’ll have their backs.

At the forefront of the locum tenens industry, Barton Associates is a leading staffing agency in the U.S. with the national footprint required to be able to serve clients across every U.S. timezone with unmatched support from every angle. Your Barton account manager simplifies the staffing process as your single point of contact, providing you with 1 on 1 support to identify the best candidates throughout every state in the country to fill your primary care openings. 

Our candidate search team consists of over 300 skilled recruiters who work hard to find the most talented primary care locums across the nation, taking the time to complete comprehensive reference checks for each provider, and proactively collecting all of the information needed to simplify your candidate search. While Barton recruiters make new connections with skilled locum providers to build our primary care database, our risk team works to vet each and every locum submitted into our system by conducting thorough background checks.

As the Barton travel team organizes all travel and lodging accommodations to efficiently get our locums to the right place at the right time, our in-house licensing and credentialing teams streamline the onboarding process by taking care of all of the tedious paperwork necessary to get our primary care locums through the doors of your healthcare facility hitting the ground running. When you work with Barton, you get an all-access pass to utilize our specialized resources and in-house support teams to assist you with every step of the staffing process.

Barton’s client base expands every day, and since 2001, our primary care recruiters have worked with, and successfully placed our locum tenens family medicine professionals at a broad range of practice settings including:

When hiring a permanent primary care 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 family medicine 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, your facility only needs to worry about salary, while we handle the rest!

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