SALT LAKE CITY, May 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Association of Locum Tenens Organizations (NALTO), the trade association of the temporary physician staffing industry, today announced its new officers.
Katie Abby, chief operating officer of VISTA Staffing Solutions, Salt Lake City, will serve as president. Bruce Kirby, president and chief operating officer of Interim Physicians, Inc., Atlanta, will serve as treasurer, and Jamey Morgan, president of Concorde Staff Source, Atlanta, is now past-president.
NALTO was created in 1991 to establish and enforce standards for ethics and sound business practices within the locum tenens industry. The association provides a system for sharing resources among members, offers a formal dispute resolution process through an arbitration committee, and educates the healthcare industry about the benefits of temporary physician staffing. NALTO has 25 member-companies.
“The locum tenens industry is and important part of the solution to the growing physician shortage in the US,” Ms Abby explains. “By placing doctors in temporary assignments in areas and in situations where there is a need, we help ensure that patients will have access to care.” It is estimated that in the next 15 years America will experience a shortfall of 200,000 physicians, and that this will have a disproportionate impact on rural areas.
Other NALTO officials are Brian Reinhardt (member of board), vice president, Reinhardt Medical Group, Inc., Pensacola, Fla., and B. Franklin Phillips, (member of board), president, Weatherby Locums, Inc., Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
The locum tenens industry was founded in the United States in 1979. In 2003, at least 25,000 physicians took locum tenens assignments and the locum tenens staffing industry had an estimated $2 billion in revenues.
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