Service Overview
Leadership Solutions for Hospitals and Healthcare Organizations
Healthcare Executive Search Solution: Our staff of search consultants average over 20 years experience in healthcare and executive search. Our performance based search process is designed for accountability, achieving mutual success, and sharing risk.
Healthcare Interim Management Solution: Our professionals average 20-25 years experience serving as Directors, Vice Presidents, CXOs, and Sr. Executive Strategic consultants with direct financial, clinical, operational, and IT system experience, all utilizing best practices.
Retained Firms:
- Generally specialize in mid to senior level management positions.
- Travel to their client site where they typically interview multiple members of the senior management team to get a sense of the strategic vision and culture of the organization.
- Often work with the Board of Directors.
- Develop networks of industry-specific candidates and contacts often built through involvement in industry specific experiences and professional organizations.
- Because retained firms work as consultants through exclusive search agreements, they are able to provide dedicated resources to each search.
- Are a source of competitive intelligence.
- Have staff that typically comes from industry or has significant industry experience.
- Provide thorough candidate evaluation to include detailed interviews (often in-person), reference checking, education verification, and behavioral evaluations.
- Offer extended guarantees, typically 6 to 12 months.
- Charge monthly expenses for administrative and marketing support, often amounting to thousands of dollars on top of the search fee.
- Search fee is paid in three installments based on pre-determined timeframes, not results.
- Typically the best option for a national search, industry-specific positions, or difficult to fill positions.
Contingent Firms:
- Paid a search fee only if one of their referred candidates is hired.
- Rely on large volume and quick turnarounds.
- Search fees are typically less than retained.
- Do not charge any search expenses.
- Commit limited resources to any one particular search as there is no guarantee of receiving any search fees. Rather, they focus more on marketing candidates to a wide variety of employers.
- Are more reliant on job boards and the Internet to source candidates.
- Offer short guarantees, typically 30 to 60 days.
- Conduct less detailed candidate evaluation process.
- Typically the best option for searches with a large local candidate pool (non-industry specific).
- Do not typically offer industry expertise and are not a source of competitive intelligence.
Morgan Hunter HealthSearch Performance Based Search Process:
- Built a network of candidates and contacts at the mid to senior management level within the healthcare industry through involvement in professional associations, national conferences, and personal contacts.
- Travel on-site to each client, at our expense, to understand the vision and culture of the organization, as well as the unique characteristics of the specific search.
- Dedicate resources to each search.
- Conduct detailed candidate evaluations and provide a written profile for each candidate.
- Search fees are based on results.
- Provide competitive market intelligence to our clients.
- Search expenses are optional based on the specific search and must be preapproved by the client.
- Our staff has personal experience working in the healthcare industry.
- Offer a 12 month candidate guarantee.
- Focused exclusively in healthcare.
Interim Management Solutions Overview:
Morgan Hunter HealthSearch provides interim leadership at the manager through CEO level. We provide our client organizations the following solutions:
- Coverage for the vacancy of key leadership roles to ensure operations continue moving forward during a time of transition.
- Supplement to the existing leadership structure, driving specific initiatives or projects.
- Mentoring of an existing leader and/or team.
- Consultation/Operational Turnaround in the form of assessments and/or implementation action/improvements plans.
Types Of Positions We Specialize In:
Below is a partial list of completed searches:
- Administrator
- Chief Clinical Officer (CCO)
- Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
- Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
- Chief Information Officer (CIO)
- Chief Nursing Officer (CNO)
- Chief Operating Officer (COO)
- Clinic Manager
- Dean of Academic Programs
- Director of Specialty Clinics
- Director of Ambulatory Surgery Center
- Director of Cancer Center
- Director of Cardiovascular Services
- Director of Case Management
- Director of Emergency Services
- Vice President of Patient Care Services
- Director of Health Information Management
- Director of Home Health/Hospice
- Director of ICU/Critical Care
- Director of Laboratory Services
- Director of Medical/Surgical
- Director of Nursing
- Director of Patient Financial Services
- Director of Pharmacy
- Director of Radiology
- Director of Surgical Services
- Executive Director
- Service Line Administrator
- Vice President of Human Resources
- Vice President of Marketing
- Vice President of Professional Services
- Vice President, Institutional Advancement
Learn more about how our process works to find the best healthcare executives for your needs.