Sumo Medial Staffing

Many physicians, NPs, RNs, allied health professionals and other healthcare workers often prefer to work in suburban or even metropolitan areas. 

Rural areas have a harder time recruiting healthcare workers due to lower wages and the perception that rural living is less “interesting.” 

Using locum tenens healthcare pros in your rural hospital not only helps ease the burden on your full-time staff it also could serve as a recruiting efforts (of sorts): locums assigned to you may find their perception is wrong! 

Healthcare pros often enter the profession because they’re driven by a desire to make a difference

Rural communities are often underserved and face a dearth of medical resources. Locums working with you temporarily well could see the unique opportunity you offer as they’ll see the direct, positive impact their work has. The personal fulfillment they’ll likely feel because they’ll know they’re truly needed can be incredibly powerful. 

A chance for more autonomy as well as broadened skill sets 

Locum tenens practitioners on assignment at your facility may help them acquire new professionals due to a broader scope of medicine as a result of the limited availability of specialists. 

Such autonomy will challenge them and speed up their growth, potentially helping them diversify their skill sets in ways that may not be available in suburban/urban settings. 

Stronger connection with patients

Small communities often mean that healthcare practitioners can create closer personal connections with facility staff and patients. 

Such closeness often means practicing a more holistic path in patient care, in which the practitioner can look at a patient’s community and lifestyle in treatment plans. 

Locums don’t always have to be a “stopgap” measure

Augmenting facility staff with locum tenens pros can be more than a way to increase staff temporarily when needed: it also could be a tool for rural hospitals to find permanent staff. 

Locum pros who work in rural areas could become attracted to the closer community, slower-paced lifestyle and the huge sense of purpose that comes not just from their career in caring for patients, but for the sense of purpose/mission that humans often gain when they realize that they are improving the lives of populations often “forgotten.’ 

This positive aspect of serving in a rural healthcare facility could well convince them to take up permanent roles at the facility helping to address the long-term staffing issues often found in rural medical centers. 

When you need locum tenens professionals for your rural – or your urban/suburban – medical center, hospital or private practice, consider asking SUMO Staffing to help you find them.  

Learn more about our locum tenens staffing services