Advanced practice providers are integral to effective and efficient health care delivery.
Enhancing your APP leadership structures can help to support APP engagement, workforce planning, recruitment and retention, and greater alignment with physician workforce strategies.
SullivanCotter research shows that the presence of an APP leader is associated with 2% less turnover. With the direct cost of turnover estimated to exceed $120,000 per APP, this can have a significant financial impact on an organization. Additionally, many organizations are looking to have greater consistency in APP leadership leveling, compensation, and administrative time – and require access to the right data in order to address this.
Dive deeper into the data with our latest infographic! SullivanCotter’s APP Leadership and Organizational Survey – which contains data from more than 81 organizations on more than 1,250 individual APP leaders – reports on four different leadership level, including clinical-level, management-level, head of advanced practice, and top APP executive. This includes compensation data, common titles, administrative duties and more.
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