Healthcare Recruiting Happy Hour @SHRM

Time: Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 5 P.M - 7 P.M CST
Location: Harvest Hall, 815 South Main St, Grapevine, TX
Third Rail inside Harvest Hall
Event link: https://www.linkedin.com/event/manage/7444601352804024320/

Time: Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 5 P.M - 7 P.M CST
Location: Harvest Hall, 815 South Main St, Grapevine, TX
Third Rail inside Harvest Hall
Event link: https://www.linkedin.com/event/manage/7444601352804024320/
Hospitals do not run on doctors and nurses alone. They run on the respiratory therapist, lab scientist, imaging tech, pharmacist, coder, and health information pro no one applauds until the system breaks. The invisible workforce was never invisible. It was load-bearing.
Healthcare leaders keep asking where the nurses went. Wrong question. Ask why so many nurses looked at the job they once loved and decided the bargain no longer made sense. You cannot recruit your way out of a job people are trying to survive.
America is aging into more medical need just as many physicians are aging out of the workforce. That is not a shortage. It is a collision. Healthcare recruiting cannot keep waiting for open reqs, job posts, and active applicants. The waiting room is filling faster than the pipeline.
AI talent poaching has become a corporate arms race. As bonuses soar and shortages deepen, leaders face a harder question: how do you compete for elite talent without crossing ethical lines or losing your best people?