Community-Based Recruiting: Keeping Providers Close, with Joe Theine and Jen Gero
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An episode of the Exploring Rural Health podcast featuring Joe Theine, CEO of Southwest Health System, based in Cortez, Colorado, and Jen Gero, MD, SHS Chief Medical Officer. Focuses on their health system's community-based recruiting activities and how these efforts help integrate new providers into the community. Part 1 in a 3-part series from the December 2025 Health Innovation Potluck held in Hutchinson, Kansas.
Date
02/2026
Organization
Rural Health Information Hub
Tagged as
Community and economic development
· Community engagement and volunteerism
· Graduate medical education
· Health workforce pipeline
· Hospitals
· Physicians
· Recruitment and retention of health professionals
· Colorado