Primary care, hospital medicine, behavioral health, and multi-specialty physician recruiting.
Elina Sindhu
Healthcare Recruiting
Hospitalist staffing agency
Hire board-certified hospitalists with the experience your hospital needs. Access experienced passive candidates.
- Every candidate screened before introduction
- Matched by patient population and care environment
- Verified credentials and clinical experience
Chosen by hospitals, health systems, and healthcare organizations
Where we place
Hospital medicine programs vary in structure. We recruit across all of them:
Community hospitalists
IM and FM trained, community hospitals under 300 beds
Nocturnists
Permanent night coverage, separate sourcing track
Pediatric hospitalists
Inpatient pediatrics with hospital medicine training
Obstetric hospitalists
OB and laborist model coverage
Surgical co-management hospitalists
Perioperative and surgical services support
Medical Director of Hospital Medicine
Program leadership with clinical duties
Academic hospitalists
Teaching, research, and clinical combined roles
We recruit from hospital medicine programs,
not from listings
Hospitalist staffing at the program level starts with understanding how your service is structured - before we identify a single candidate. We verify:
Active state medical license and DEA registration
ABIM or ABFM board certification status
Average patient census and caseload expectations
Hospital medicine program type: community, academic, co-management, or nocturnist
Nocturnist, swing shift, or dedicated overnight experience where applicable
Shift structure and scheduling compatibility
EHR experience (Epic, Cerner, Meditech)
Compensation expectations and genuine interest in your opportunity
Professional references and credentialing history
Most clients receive their first hospitalist shortlist within 72-96 hours of search kickoff.
Why ExpertHiring instead of a locum agency?
"We already use a locum agency for hospitalist coverage."
Locum agencies are great when you need someone to step in and cover shifts. Permanent hiring is a different conversation.
If you're looking for a physician who's going to become part of your team, get to know your medical staff, and still be there a few years from now, you're usually talking to a different group of physicians. That's the group we focus on.
"We post on Doximity and usually get applicants."
There's nothing wrong with posting jobs. You'll almost always get applications. The question is whether you're seeing the physicians you really want.
The hospitalists who are doing well in programs like yours usually aren't spending their time applying for jobs. They're busy taking care of patients. We reach out to those physicians directly and start conversations that never begin with a job posting.
That's the difference hospitalist recruiting through direct outreach makes compared to waiting on job board applications.
Request hospitalist candidates →Get to know the recruiters behind our searches
You'll work with recruiters who understand the market and the specialties they recruit for.
Behavioral health physicians, emergency medicine, and difficult-to-fill physician specialties.
Ray Shimray
Healthcare Recruiting
Chief Medical Officers, Medical Directors, physician leadership, and executive healthcare hiring.
Annie Larkin
Healthcare Recruiting
70+ additional recruiters dedicated to your specific hiring needs
Our recent hospitalist placements
Names and identifying details have been removed to protect client confidentiality.
Nocturnist
38 days
Medical Director of Hospital Medicine
44 days
Surgical Co-Management Hospitalist
31 days
Frequently asked questions
Yes, quite a few. Not every hospitalist has experience working alongside orthopedic, spine, or general surgery teams. If your physicians are co-managing surgical patients, that's something we want to know right away.
One mistake we see is treating every hospitalist opening the same. They're not. A physician who's spent years in a traditional hospital medicine program isn't automatically the right fit for a surgical co-management team.
Before we start the search, we'll learn how your program is set up and focus on physicians who've already worked in that kind of environment.
The obvious difference is the schedule. Hospitalists usually work days or rotating shifts. Nocturnists work permanent nights.
The bigger difference is the job itself. Overnight physicians are often making decisions with fewer people around and fewer resources available, so not every hospitalist enjoys that kind of work. That's why nocturnist searches almost always take longer. The pool is smaller, and physicians who like permanent nights tend to be pretty selective about where they go.
Yes, we can. We do a lot of work with community hospitals. They don't always have the biggest compensation packages, but that's rarely the whole conversation. A lot of physicians like the smaller teams, easier access to leadership, more input into how the program runs, and a practice that's a little more predictable than a large academic center.
Those are the things that usually get people's attention, not just the salary.
Yes. For organizations managing a coverage gap while a permanent search runs, we recruit locum hospitalists through the same direct-outreach approach. Every locum candidate goes through the same pre-presentation verification as permanent searches - licensure, DEA, board certification, program fit, and scheduling compatibility. For dedicated locum coverage, see our Locum Tenens Agency page.
The hospitalist you need isn't applying. We find them before someone else does.
Our recruiters reach employed hospitalists directly, confirm program fit before any introduction, and only present candidates built for your specific program structure - not the closest available option.
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