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When your healthcare organization has critical leadership vacancies, how do you effectively: * Balance patient quality care and satisfaction with the budget? * Maintain CMS and TJC regulatory compliance standards? * Maintain hospital margins (already diminishing and under increasing pressure) when the cost associated with turnover, recruiting, replacement and lower productivity can have dramatic and profound financial implications?* Stay on plan for your strategic improvement goals?* Keep staff engagement at the highest level when leadership vacancies and staff shortages have increased employee workloads, responsibilities, and overtime hours to the stretching point?It's hard to deliver quality care and financial results for your community and hospital when your organization is understaffed, has critical unfilled leadership vacancies, or doesn't have the skilled professionals to accomplish your mission - or even to staff your daily required operations. Healthcare organizations typically plan for a four- to six-month leadership hiring process. It often takes longer. Why? Because it's imperative for you to find the right person for your organization - a perfect match of skills, capabilities, experience, cultural fit, and proven results. But this intervening timeframe can lead to long-term negative consequences, including loss of focus on transformative care initiatives and strategic goals. So, for creative and visionary healthcare leaders, what's the answer to this conundrum?INTERIM HEALTHCARE LEADERS. Based on proven principles and practices this guide reveals how to use the on-demand intellectual capital, experience, expertise and change-agent capabilities of professional interim healthcare leaders in your organization.