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Hospital 'raiders' scope rival staffs; In turbulent market, the strongest step up push for docs.(physician recruiters target hospitals in turmoil)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

Crain's Chicago Business, January, 2001 by KLEIN, SARAH A.

Barbara LaPiana is the hospital industry equivalent of a corporate raider. She pores through the medical directories of competing hospitals, looking for doctors with established practices in Uptown. Her goal: to lure doctors to her employer, Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital. In the increasingly turbulent local hospital market, she's seeing more opportunities to snag talent-but so are rivals.

Physician recruiters throughout the city-``raiders'' in industry parlance-are on the prowl for doctors, who represent the surest guarantee of growth for hospitals. Doctors bring patients. That's why recruiters from the area's economically strong hospitals are making plays for the medical staff of their more vulnerable counterparts, offering everything from better...

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