Population growth, demographics, retirement trends, tourism and industry-wide shortages are just a few of the factors that play into the physician recruitment equation at Munson Healthcare. Though typically associated with Traverse City first and foremost, the Munson system spans eight community hospitals and serves approximately 540,000 residents across its 29-county, 14,667-square-mile territory – “about the size of Vermont and Delaware combined,” as the Munson website puts it.
Munson relies on some 7,500 employees to keep that sprawling system running, about 1,000 of whom are physicians. As with most local employers these days, hiring challenges permeate every category of the organization, …
