Business Details
20 Years
experience
Your Trusted Partner for Healthcare Recruitment Solutions
At Tal Healthcare, we are dedicated to transforming healthcare through strategic talent acquisition. Since 2006, our firm has specialized in connecting healthcare organizations with visionary leaders, executives, physicians, and allied health professionals. Our approach combines personalized service with industry expertise, ensuring we understand both organizational needs and candidate aspirations. With a focus on New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Florida, we conduct national searches to find high-performing teams that drive innovation in healthcare.Our commitment to responsible AI in recruitment ensures fair, transparent hiring practices while maintaining a human-centric approach. Recognized by Forbes and certified by WBENC, we pride ourselves on building lasting relationships and delivering tailored solutions that align with evolving industry trends.
Services
Executive Recruitment
Physician Placement
Nursing Staffing
Revenue Cycle Recruitment
Leadership Consulting
Details
- Year established: 2006
Highlights and features
- We have over 20 years of experience in healthcare recruitment.
- Our national search network covers key healthcare markets.
- We provide personalized service with a 98% client satisfaction rate.
- Our team includes certified recruiters with industry-specific expertise.
- We leverage AI technology for fair and transparent hiring practices.
Associations and certifications
- Forbes Magazine
- Womens Business Enterprise National Council (WEBNC)
What people say
Extremely helpful staff
Seamless application process
Personalized career guidance
Prompt communication
Perfect job matches
Services
Executive Recruitment
Our executive recruitment service identifies visionary leaders for healthcare organizations. We specialize in C-suite placements, department heads, and senior management roles. With deep industry connections and rigorous candidate vetting, we ensure cultural fit and strategic alignment. Clients benefit from our 15+ years of experience placing executives in academic medical centers, health systems, and private practices.
Physician Placement
We connect healthcare facilities with qualified physicians across all specialties. From primary care to subspecialists, our database includes board-certified professionals seeking permanent and locum tenens positions. Our process includes credential verification, practice style assessments, and compensation benchmarking to ensure optimal matches for hospitals, clinics, and private practices.
Nursing Staffing
Our nursing recruitment solutions address critical staffing needs across care settings. We place registered nurses, nurse practitioners, and specialty nursing professionals in acute care, long-term facilities, and home health agencies. Our service includes travel nursing assignments, leadership roles, and permanent placements with a focus on quality patient care outcomes.
Revenue Cycle Recruitment
We specialize in revenue cycle management professionals for healthcare organizations. Our expertise covers billing specialists, coding experts, and financial leadership roles. With deep knowledge of healthcare reimbursement models, we place candidates who optimize revenue integrity and compliance for hospitals, physician groups, and payers.
Leadership Consulting
Our leadership consulting service provides organizational development strategies for healthcare institutions. We offer succession planning, team assessments, and executive coaching to enhance leadership effectiveness. Clients receive market intelligence on compensation trends and talent acquisition strategies tailored to evolving healthcare delivery models.
People
Lea Tal
Founder & CEO
Lea Tal founded Tal Healthcare in 2006 with over 25 years of healthcare recruitment expertise. She leads a team of specialized recruiters, maintaining active memberships in ACHE, HFMA, and WBENC. Her leadership focuses on building strategic partnerships and advancing diversity in healthcare staffing.
Fran Phillips
Senior Recruiter
Fran Phillips brings 18 years of healthcare recruitment experience, specializing in executive leadership placements. She maintains a 95% client retention rate through personalized service and market insights. Fran's expertise includes academic medical centers and health system leadership searches.
Nancy Bookchin
Recruitment Director
Nancy Bookchin oversees physician recruitment with a focus on primary care and specialty medicine. With 15 years in healthcare staffing, she has placed over 300 physicians in academic and private practice settings. Her approach emphasizes long-term career development for candidates.
Carmela Cannavo
Senior Recruiter
Carmela Cannavo specializes in allied health professional placements, particularly physician assistants and nurse practitioners. She has facilitated over 200 successful matches in the past five years, maintaining a 4.9/5 client satisfaction rating for her responsive and thorough recruitment process.
Donna Bozek
Recruitment Specialist
Donna Bozek focuses on public health and administrative leadership placements. With a decade of healthcare recruitment experience, she has developed a specialized network of candidates for non-clinical leadership roles across major healthcare systems in the Northeast region.
Questions
What healthcare specialties do you recruit for?
We recruit across all healthcare specialties including physicians, nurses, executives, IT professionals, and revenue cycle experts.
How does your recruitment process work for employers?
We begin with a detailed consultation to understand your needs, then leverage our network to present pre-vetted candidates matched to your requirements.
Do you offer temporary staffing solutions?
Yes, we provide locum tenens physicians and temporary nursing professionals alongside permanent placement services.
What geographic areas do you cover?
While based in New York, we conduct national searches with strongest networks in NY, NJ, CT, PA, and FL.
How do you ensure candidate quality?
Our rigorous vetting includes credential verification, skills assessment, and multiple reference checks for all candidates.
What makes Tal Healthcare different?
Our combination of industry expertise, personalized service, and 18-year track record in healthcare recruitment sets us apart.
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Reviews (4)
Lindsay DeLongis
Jun 06, 2018
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Tal Healthcare recruiters build relationship with both companies and candidates! They are very knowledgeable on the healthcare industry and strive to find the perfect fit.
D. Ashraf
Dec 10, 2017
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Tal Healthcare builds trust with candidates and partners with some of the most prestigious academic medical centers to place qualified professionals in top notch jobs.
Richard Fenton
Oct 08, 2017
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A truly unique place to spread your wings and succeed.
Tal Healthcare provides amazing opportunities to staff and candidates. We have intimate relationships throughout the NYC Metro Healthcare Industry and direct access to all the top healthcare organizations/health systems/academic centers/medical groups/FQHCs/Managed Care Plans/Not for Profits and healthcare related employers. These relationships and a vibrant company-wide drive to exceed our clients' and candidates' expectations makes Tal Healthcare a truly unique place to spread your wings and succeed.
Tal Healthcare provides amazing opportunities to staff and candidates. We have intimate relationships throughout the NYC Metro Healthcare Industry and direct access to all the top healthcare organizations/health systems/academic centers/medical groups/FQHCs/Managed Care Plans/Not for Profits and healthcare related employers. These relationships and a vibrant company-wide drive to exceed our clients' and candidates' expectations makes Tal Healthcare a truly unique place to spread your wings and succeed.
John Dillon
Jun 07, 2017
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Tal Healthcare provides a great work environment. Management helps you excel in your specialty area while encouraging you to explore new aspects of the healthcare recruitment field. All the tools for success are provided. I found what I was looking for in a healthcare recruiting firm and employer.
