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Cejka Search Announces New Memberships with Leading Healthcare Organizations

Cejka Search has announced memberships with American Hospital Association (AHA) and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). The memberships’ enriched information will enhance Cejka Search’s capabilities as a leader in physician search in the healthcare industry...Read More

Cejka Search Expands to Focus on Key Niches

Bonnie Siegel and Scott Bates have been named vice presidents of healthcare information technology and healthcare foundations, respectively, in Cejka Search's healthcare executive search practice...Read More

Cejka Search Continues to Build Executive Search Division

Scott Bates has joined Cejka Search as Vice President in the Executive Search division. Bates is the most recent executive search consultant to join Cejka Search, which has doubled its team of senior consultants and associates since last year...Read More

Building a Bigger C-Suite (PDF)

As featured in HealthLeaders
Thanks to the proliferation of new senior-level titles in healthcare, the executive suite at many organizations takes up a whole floor. In addition to traditional positions like chief executive officer and chief financial officer, many C-suites now include slots for human resources, strategy, quality - even "knowledge."

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Cejka Search Promotes Allan Cacanindin to Director of Interactive Marketing

Cejka Search recently promoted Allan Cacanindin to director of interactive marketing. In this role, his responsibilities include the conceptualization, production, execution and analysis tracking of all interactive marketing initiatives for Cejka Search...Read More

Cejka Search Promotes Pam Kinsella to Senior Search Consultant

Cejka Search recently promoted Pam Kinsella to senior search consultant in the Physician Search division. Kinsella’s responsibilities include ensuring the successful development and placement of physician candidate on behalf of leading healthcare organizations across the country...Read More

Part-Time Practice Trends Intensify Physician Shortage According to AMGA and Cejka Search 2007 Physician Retention Survey

The imbalance in the supply and demand for physicians will continue to intensify as the U.S. population continues to grow faster than the physician workforce. Added pressure will come with the increasing number of physicians practicing medicine on a part-time basis, as reported the 2007 Retention Survey from the American Medical Group Association (AMGA) and Cejka Search...Read More

Cejka Search Presents Physician Retention Survey and Receives AMGA Distinguished Corporate Partner Award at AMGA 2008 Annual Conference

Carol Westfall, president of Cejka Search, will deliver a presentation and accept an award at the upcoming AMGA 2008 Annual Conference: Learning from the Best in Orlando, Florida. Westfall will present the Cejka Search and AMGA 2007 Physician Retention Survey with Joseph Scopelliti, MD...Read More

Cejka Search Experts Present Latest Developments in Physician Retention and
CEO Leadership Skills

Several Cejka Search leaders will deliver two featured industry presentations: Top Physician Retention Strategies Audio Conference and the American College of Healthcare Executives 2008 Congress on Healthcare Leadership...Read More

Best Practices for Physician Retention

Join Brian McCartie, Regional Vice President at Cejka Search, and Kevin Donovan, Vice President of Physician and Ambulatory Services...Read More

Cejka Search Awarded Silver eHealthcare Leadership Distinction for Best Overall Web Site

With more than 1,100 entries in 16 categories, eHealthcare Strategy & Trends awarded Cejka Search, a national healthcare executive and physician search firm, its 2007 Silver Distinction Leadership Award for best overall web site...Read More

Leading Physician Recruitment Experts at Cejka Search Participate in Leading Industry Online Events

Two of Cejka Search's leading physician recruitment experts will participate in upcoming online industry events...Read More

Cejka Search Experts Present Latest Developments in Physician and Healthcare Employment at Leading Industrys Conferences

Several Cejka Search leaders will be delivering featured presentations at three upcoming industry conferences...Read More

Cejka Search Ranked Among Top Ten U.S. Executive Search Firms

The American Red Cross St. Louis Area Chapter announces that Vivian M. Luce has been elected to serve a two-year term as Chair of the Board of Directors. Vivian, a 30+ year Red Cross volunteer and the Vice-President of Business Development for Cejka Search...Read More

Cejka Search Ranked Among Top Ten U.S. Executive Search Firms

Cejka Search is ranked among the top ten U.S. executive search firms, according to the Executive Recruiter News (ERN) Annual Rankings. Throughout the past several years, St. Louis-based Cejka Search has steadily traveled up the list, having risen from fourteen in 2003 to nine in 2007...Read More

Cejka Search Leaders to Share Expertise on Physician Retention and Healthcare Career Development at Leading Industry Conferences

Cejka Search experts will be featured presenters at major healthcare industry conferences this fall, including the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) 2006 Annual Conference and the American College of Physician Executives (ACPE) Fall Institute Milestone Program...Read More

Cejka Search Employees Conduct Fun Search on New MetroLink

Cejka Search employees recently took a step away from their roles as healthcare executive and physician recruitment experts and stepped onto the platform of the new MetroLink station on Central Avenue for a different kind of search...Read More

Beyond the Labels: Lessons for Physician Recruitment in Changing Times

The medical profession continues to be dominated by physicians of Dylan’s generation. Labeled as the “Boomer” and “Mature” generational segments, these are the physicians who ushered in some of the greatest advances in medicine, earned the trust and loyalty of their patients, built successful practices and raised their own families - amid a rapidly changing health care system...Read More

Cejka Search Builds Healthcare Search Talent: Michael Hill, VP for Nationwide Executive Search Practice and Wheeler Jones, Regional VP for Southeast

Michael Hill has joined the organization as Vice President, Practice Leader. Hill will lead a nationwide practice within the company’s Healthcare Executive Search Division. Hill and Wheeler Jones, Regional Vice President, both reside in the Charlotte, North Carolina area...Read More

Mark Prosperi Adds 20 Years of Healthcare Industry Experience to Executive Search Division of Cejka Search

Mark Prosperi has expanded his role within the organization to serve the Executive Search Division as vice president. Prosperi builds on his 20 years of healthcare experience which includes a decade with the Cejka Search team...Read More

Paul Esselman Joins Cejka Search as Vice President, Healthcare Executive Search

Paul Esselman has joined the firm as vice president in the Executive Search Division. Esselman is responsible for managing all aspects of the search process, including candidate recruitment, interviewing and negotiations. In this role, Esselman effectively merges his extensive management and healthcare expertise to successfully identify and evaluate the skills and competence of a healthcare executive...Read More

Dr. Punch Clock? (PDF)

As featured in HealthLeaders
Rising competition and costly stipends help spur hospitals' growing interest in employing docs.

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Retention Initiatives Rise (PDF)

As featured in Recruiting Physicians Today
In this issue of Recruiting Physicians Today, feature articles include: Retention Initiatives, Turnover Concerns Increase, Median Physician Executive Compensation.

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Fly the Coop - Escaping the Physician Executive Pigeonhole (PDF)

As featured in The Physician Executive
Evidence suggests that physician executives - and those who hire them - may be missing out on new opportunities, positive experiences and potential growth because of unspoken stereotypes. We’re not talking about racial, gender or age issues. We’re talking about pigeonholing physician executives.

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Happy and Retained (PDF)

As featured in HealthLeaders
Reducing employee turnover can boost morale - and a hospital’s bottom line.

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Retaining the Best Physicians for Your Medical Group (PDF)

As featured in Group Practice Journal
Annual Survey Reveals Strategies for Successful Retention.

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Effective Leadership Teams Achieving Financial, Quality, Operational, and Clinical Goals (PDF)

As featured in HealthLeaders Extra
The demand for physician executives is increasing. Hospitals and health systems across the nation are clamoring for physician executives to lead efforts aimed at improving financial, quality, operational and clinical outcomes.

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Physician Demographics Evident In Turnover Rates; "Fit and Family" are Driving Forces AMGA and Cejka Search 2006 Physician Retention Survey Identifies Trends

Changing demographics of the physician workforce are reflected in physician turnover trends, according to the 2006 Retention Survey from the American Medical Group Association (AMGA) and Cejka Search, a nationally recognized physician and healthcare executive search organization...Read More

Cejka Search Web Site Wins Two Awards for Excellence

eHealthcare Strategy & Trends recently awarded Cejka Search, a nationally recognized healthcare executive and physician search firm, with a 2006 Gold Leadership Award for its Web site in the category of Best Staff Recruitment. The eHealthcare Leadership Awards program is meant to recognize "the very best Web sites and business improvement initiatives" from organizations within the healthcare field...Read More