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In a reflection of changing practice patterns, an increasing number of hospitals, medical groups, and other healthcare organizations are hiring locum tenens physicians to fill gaps in care, according ...

For decades, locum tenens firms have acted as matchmakers between physicians and health care facilities in need of additional support. According to the American Medical Association, at any given time, ...

Eighty-five percent of healthcare facilities have used locum tenens in the past year to fill gaps caused by a shortage of physicians, according to a new survey. Hospitals, medical groups, and other ...

Locum tenens are being increasingly used in hospitals, ambulatory care centers, urgent care clinics, primary care clinics, and long-term acute care centers, and the trend shows no signs of reversing.

Locumpedia named Alain Raymond, PA-C, a cardiothoracic surgical physician assistant with Aya Locums and a U.S. Navy veteran, as a “2025 Locum Tenens Providers of the Year.” After transitioning from ...

The use of temporary physicians, known as "locum tenens," to fill staffing shortages continues to be widespread, according to a new survey from national physician staffing firm Staff Care, a company ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) - Hospital patients’ survival rates don’t suffer when fill-in doctors substitute for the regular ...

Traditionally, locum tenens have been used as a way for hospitals to replace a physician that is out of the office temporarily. But that is not the only way to use locum tenens. The model can be used ...

It’s long been thought that hospitalized patients are better off getting treatment from full-time doctors instead of temp physicians. Those temps are called in to cover for doctors’ sick days, ...