We are currently in National Harbor, Maryland for the Society of Hospital Medicine’s Annual Meeting. The conference has been great so far! Beautiful location, great sessions, and wonderful people—you can’t ask for much more from a conference. The conference comes to a close for us on Saturday, so if you’re attending and haven’t met with us yet—or even if you have—stop by booth #1225 to say ‘hello’, ‘goodbye’, or just enter our raffle for your chance to win a Best Buy gift card!

In other news: If you read last week’s blog post, you’re aware of the exciting website enhancements we are making come August. If you didn’t get a chance to read it, let us tell you what you can look forward to in the upcoming months; in addition to providing the physician job services we currently do, we are opening up the window for Advanced Practice Nurses, Registered Nurses, and Physician Assistants on our website. In mid-August, healthcare employers will be able to post job opportunities for the above positions, and we hope to see an outpouring of APN’s, RN’s, and PA’s creating accounts when the services are available. There has been such an increase in demand for these positions in the recent years, so we’re eager to see the outcome once we expand our reach to these professionals in the medical field. In addition to our audience expansion we will be focusing on a website redesign and incorporating additional features onto our site to make our users’ lives easier. We will keep you posted on the upcoming changes and would love to hear what you think.

Thank you for reading and have a wonderful weekend!

This week is National Nurses Week, a week dedicated to recognizing all that nurses do for us every day. The individuals in this profession endure long hours, crazy schedules, emotional and physical stress, and more on a daily basis, all for our health and safety, and that deserves some recognition. We’d like to take this time to thank all of the nurses out there who make endless sacrifices to help those who need it most. We truly appreciate all that you do.

And in honor of National Nurses Week, we’d like to make an exciting announcement regarding our website. Come mid-August we will be launching new services that extend to nurses, as well as Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners. Our website will work in the same manner, but rather than limiting job search access strictly to physicians, all APN’s and RN’s will also be able to take advantage of our services. We are excited for this product launch and can’t wait to help nurses and APN’s alike to find their dream job!

Thank you for reading and we will be releasing new details regarding our website enhancements as we get them, so stay tuned!

The month of April treated us great! It was busy, as we attended three different conferences, but we had a great time networking, promoting, and even watching some baseball!

Clint at the CAPS Annual Conference

We started out the month in Grand Rapids, MI at the Michigan Medical Group Management Association’s Spring Conference. If you’ve been keeping up with our posts, you already know how well it turned out from reading our recap. Shortly after the MMGMA event we headed to Cherokee, NC for the Carolinas Association of Physician Services Annual Conference, which we also discussed on the blog. This conference went great, too, it had a good turnout and we really enjoyed the casino theme that ran throughout the entire event. We’d also like to give a special shout out to Sheila Parmer from Carolinas Healthcare System who won a $100 casino token in our raffle, and to Thomas Baysinger, also from Carolinas Healthcare System, who won a $50 Best Buy gift card in another one of our raffles.

Clint and Ronit with some recruiters at the Detroit Tigers game for the MRRN Annual Conference

Finally, we finished off the month strong at the Michigan Recruitment & Retention Network’s Annual Conference in Detroit, MI. This event was wonderful and reunited us with some recruiters we’ve known for quite some time now, and even gave us the opportunity to attend a Detroit Tiger’s baseball game with them. The game ended up being quite the nail biter, with a dramatic conclusion of the Tigers winning over the Minnesota Twins with a final score of 4-3. We truly had a great time—especially since our team won! The raffle winner from this conference was Stephanie Mosher of PineRest Christian Mental Health Services, who won a $100 Kohls gift certificate. Congratulations to all the winners! We thank you and everyone else who stopped by our booth.

We met so many new people this month, and were also greeted by some friendly, familiar faces at these conferences, it’s safe to say April will be a hard month to beat—but we’ll try our best! Thank you for reading and have a great weekend.

Here at leapdoctor.com we absolutely love our pets, so you can imagine our delight to find out there’s a day dedicated specifically to us pet parents! That’s right; this coming Sunday the 28th marks the sixth ever National Pet Parents Day. In this post we’d like to introduce you to the furry friends in our lives and share what makes them so special.

President & CEO, Ronit with Fergie

Breed: Pomapoo (Pomeranian and Poodle mix)
Age: 4.5
Favorite activities: Playing tug of war and running after people.
About: “Fergie is a very smart dog who loves attention. She has been sleeping in bed with me since I first got her when she was nine weeks old. She enjoys chewy toys and eating meat, especially chicken. She is definitely a Michigan girl, as she loves the cold weather and hates the rain and sun. She is also very protective and afraid of loud noises.”  -Ronit

Physician & Recruiter Liaison, Clint’s dog, Toey

Breed: Boston Terrier
Age: 8
Favorite activities: Crazy Fetch (she lives for this).
About: “Toey lives to play fetch and believes she is human herself. She refuses to interact with other dogs and prefers the company of humans. Always the eager greeter when one arrives home. In her down time she likes to cozy up with her ‘snucky’ which is a stuffed jack that she sucks on. Picture a child sucking their thumb, Toey does this with her snucky. She is not an incessant barker, but will notify us if anything is out of place (i.e. potted flowers on back deck that were not there the day before). Although it is a matter of opinion, Toey is the greatest dog on the planet!” –Clint

Social Media & Public Relations Specialist, Danielle with Frank, Ellie, and B

Breeds: Pembroke Welsh Corgis and American Shorthair cat
Ages: Frank, almost 2; Ellie, 1.5; B, approximately 2.5
Favorite activities: Wrestling one another, belly scratches, snuggling, running outside, playing fetch, and eating.
About: “Frank and Ellie are typical siblings and are constantly playing with each other—or at each other’s throats. They are the cutest little dogs, and although they are quite mischievous, they have me wrapped around their little paws. B was a stray whom I fell in love with immediately and just had to take her in. She acts more like a dog than a cat, socializing and cuddling with everyone who walks through my door, and even gets along with the dogs—especially Ellie, who acts as her defender when Frank tries to pick on her. They are the greatest pets in the world and make me feel so grateful to be a pet parent.” -Danielle

Thank you for reading and if you are interested in learning more about Nat’l Pet Parents Day and how it got started read more here. Please feel free to share photos and/or stories about the lucky pet in your life, and treat yourself today for all the hard work, time, and money you sacrifice to be the great pet parent you are!

While most of you are preparing for a couple days off of work, the leapdoctor.com team is getting ready to travel nearly 700 miles to North Carolina for the Carolinas Association of Physician Services Annual Conference. We have attended this event in the past and it has proved to be a very educational and beneficial conference that is well worth our travels.

The event begins on Sunday afternoon and goes until Wednesday morning. Clint and Ronit will be representing the company at the conference and are looking forward to meeting with all of the attendees. We will be giving away Best Buy gift cards to winners of our raffle, so attendees should be sure to drop their name in the fishbowl located at our booth. We will also be one of the sponsors for Tuesday evening’s social event, in which there will be a buffet and open bar for the attendees to enjoy and will serve as a great networking opportunity. This year the CAPS conference is following a “gaming” theme, which is quite appropriate considering the event is being held at a Casino Resort. We are excited to see what they have up their sleeves and we hope to “win big” and walk away from the conference with some new leads!

Thank you for reading and have a wonderful weekend!