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A specialized, dedicated group of 29 senior consultants within Spencer Stuart, our Healthcare Services Practice offers clients the access and sophisticated resources of a global firm while providing the expertise, attention and service of a boutique consultancy. Our deep knowledge of the healthcare industry provides a powerful advantage for clients looking for the most talented and capable leaders able to respond to the new demands of healthcare. Our expertise spans academic and health sciences universities, academic medical centers, community and faith-based hospitals, health insurance, healthcare systems and integrated delivery networks, non-acute healthcare providers, pharmacy benefit management, specialty hospitals, and wellness/prevention.

As former healthcare industry executives, medical clinicians and academic physicians, our consultants bring firsthand knowledge of the industry and key functional roles as well as long-standing, personal relationships with the most sought-after healthcare and academic leaders.

We are committed to your success.

We have worked with 28 of the top 40 health systems, nine of the top 10 health plans and have conducted C-level, dean, department chair or division chief searches at more than half of the top-tier academic health science centers.
Over the past three years, we have successfully conducted more than 400 C-level executive and board director assignments for healthcare services organizations as well as searches for scientific and clinical leaders, and functional executives in finance, human resources, information technology and sales and marketing. Forty percent of our placements are diverse candidates.
Healthcare organizations pay rigorous attention to quality, and so do we. We consistently assess client satisfaction after assignments to evaluate ourselves and improve our performance. We have a 92% retention rate across all placements over the past three years.