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Delivering superior people, perspective, and performance to healthcare leadership.

Proven Contemporary Leadership Solutions

Our 360-degree approach
supports healthcare organizations
to build strategic leadership teams:

  • Executive Search
  • Interim Leadership
  • Executive Advisory Solutions

Healthcare Expertise Across the Continuum

Broad, national pool of diverse, seasoned, progressive healthcare executives:

  • Mission – margin, results focused
  • Culturally complementary
  • 93% Candidate Retention Rate @ 3 years post placement

Led by successful industry experts with hands-on clinical, financial and operational leadership experience:

  • Consultative approach to identify the best solutions & key competencies
  • Deep understanding of today’s market and its implications for tomorrow
  • 92% of clients return for multiple engagements

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Choosing the Right Executive Search Strategy

Open healthcare leadership roles are costly—vacancies can reach $8,000–$14,000 per day in lost productivity and opportunity (Medix, 2023). Selecting the right executive search model directly affects financial performance, culture, and leadership stability.

For top-tier executive leadership roles, retained executive search provides the greatest value: deeper candidate evaluation, stronger alignment with mission and culture, and lasting leadership stability. Internal or contingency models may fill immediate needs, however, retained executive search partnerships are the most likely to deliver lasting leaders who drive measurable, sustained performance and cultural fit.

Success Stories

Testimonials

“The Interim Leader Cath Lab and Interventional Radiology departments … demonstrated a rare combination of clinical expertise, operational acumen, and authentic leadership. Their ability to quickly assess complex workflows, identify key opportunities for improvement, and implement sustainable process changes was remarkable…. They were instrumental in stabilizing the departments, improving scheduling and throughput, and aligning the team with evidence-based best practices. … This leader consistently modeled servant leadership and left both departments stronger and more cohesive than when they arrived. … They set a new standard for interim leadership.”

Chief Nursing Officer

Regional Health System in Northern U.S.


“We engaged with Kirby Bates to fill a senior clinic leadership role during a particularly challenging job market. This was at the peak of the ‘great resignation’, during a time when healthcare was seeing tremendous turnover. The Kirby Bates team developed a strong slate of candidates, was responsive to our search committee’s priorities, and was thoughtful about the unique characteristics of our academic and community partnerships. The search was a success.”

Lisa Bachman, MAIR, SPHR

Chief Human Resources Officer, Office of Academic Clinical Affairs

“Interim Director of Care Management was extremely competent in Care Management and Utilization Review and brought a tremendous amount of actionable knowledge to our organization.”

Director of Quality

Hospital in the Northeast