Healthcare Staffing

Maternity care programs - whether clinic-based, home-visiting, or virtual - are expanding into new states and payer contracts, but many cannot activate those contracts fast enough.

By 2026, virtual primary care is no longer a novel model; it is a core component of many employer and payer benefits.

Pediatric anxiety and OCD programs operate in one of the tightest clinician markets in behavioral health. Child and adolescent psychiatrists, pediatric-trained therapists, and clinicians comfortable with evidence-based OCD treatment are in short supply.

Maternal health is one of the few clinical areas where the right answer is almost never a single clinician type. Pregnancy, birth, postpartum, infant feeding and mental health are four professions with four different supply pictures.

Evaluating staffing platforms? Use this 2026 checklist covering the model, credentialing, licensing, specialty coverage, employment type, and total cost, so you compare on what actually matters.

Healthcare openings sit near 1.3 million while hiring activity declines and budgets tighten. Here is why the gap persists and the coverage strategy that fits it.