B.C.'s Creston Valley takes doctor recruitment in its own hands with doctor recruiter

While B.C is dealing with a shortage of physicians, Creston Valley has a low vacancy rate of one-and-a-half doctors. The town took recruitment in its own hands and hired a dedicated physician recruiter. Creston Valley is home to a small local hospital and the recruiter describes the physicians in the community as semi-specialists who take on the full scope of medicine. It offers health services to an area with 15,000 people. In the six years she's attended a rural conference in St. John's (at which Nova Scotia didn’t attend), the recruiter managed to recruit four physicians. She suggests other towns that are struggling could be successful if they adopt Creston Valley’s strategy.
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