Grande Ronde Hospital | Life & Health | Winter 2019-2020

WINTER 2019–2020 Providing health care in a rural setting has its unique challenges, as well as its rewards. Creativity, partnerships and hard work are a daily effort for a 25-bed, not-for-profit, critical access hospital in order to deliver on our promise to provide the best care we possibly can. A great example is our commitment to provider recruitment. Most new physicians seek big cities In early 2019, Merritt Hawkins, one of the nation’s leading physician search and consulting firms, conducted a survey of nearly 400 physicians in —Continued on page 2 We’re bringing in the providers our community needs their final year of training to discover— among other things—how many times they were approached by recruiters and what type of communities they were seeking to settle in. Nearly half reported they had more than 100 recruitment offers in their final year. That’s a lot of options to consider. Even more eye-opening is that 99% of those physicians preferred settling in a community of 25,000 or more, with a whopping 45% of those prefer- ring a large urban population base of more than 250,000. Only 1%—or four providers—were interested in practicing in a community of 10,000 to 25,000. Recruiting results for our rural area Those facts make the 2019 provider recruitment story at Grande Ronde Hospital (GRH) particularly noteworthy, because our efforts over the past year or so have garnered signed contracts with 15 new providers, including a second otolaryngologist who will arrive in the summer of 2020. Our Emergency Department and our Women’s and Children’s Clinics are fully staffed, and the Cardiology Clinic is again seeing patients. Join us in welcoming these newest members of our community! The GRH Women’s & Children’s Clinics exceptional care staff includes Kevin Grayson, MD; Macey Clarke, CPNP-PC; Dale Robinson, MD; Stacy Whitaker, DO; Jeanna Romer, MD; Meldy Lim, MD; Dawn Knight, MD; Eve Koltuv, MD; Monica Hill, NP-C; and Zach Spoehr-Labutta, MD. Not pictured is Jill Parsons-Chaffee, WHCNP.

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