Virtual Assistants Offer Unique Partnership For Locum Tenens

Hurst, Texas, September 2005 For physicians working in temporary positions, or Locum Tenens as it is known, life seems great. They have the opportunity to work in a variety of medical facilities, have plenty of work, and can often travel abroad with their work. However among the many challenges they face as the need for their services grows so do the demands to keep up with their heavy schedule as well as all the administrative aspects of being their own boss.

Along with a heavy schedule and travel, the growing demand for greater detail in hospital credentialing and state licensing leads to the added responsibility of administrative tasks in addition to working an 8-12 hour shift typically away from home. Small business owners and others have come to depend on Virtual Assistants to ease administrative tasks that can be left to someone with these skills. The result has been an emerging demand for outsourcing to virtual assistants to allow flexibility and lower outgoing expenses while ensuring continued professionalism. Now there is a virtual assistant team that specializes in assisting the Healthcare Industry with all that is involved in staying organized and freeing up time.

A virtual assistant, or "VA," is an independent contractor who provides administrative, technical, creative, or consulting services to other businesses, usually from a home office. VAs support their clients via the Internet, phone, fax and email eliminating the need for full time staff and expensive office equipment. A virtual assistant can pick up the ever growing administrative and planning duties leaving the physician plenty of time for more important issues, healing the sick and spending time with family and friends.

A virtual assistant provides three key benefits to Locum Tenens:

• Cost savings such as paying for services rendered instead of using full time staff, eliminating the cost of paying workers compensation, unemployment, state and federal taxes and other employee related fees.

• Greater access to highly skilled professionals on a short-term basis.

• The ability to have all your administrative duties and other business tasks handled in one location without the expense of purchasing or renting office space or equipment.

Von Management Group, a virtual assistant company specializes in assisting healthcare professionals with document support and administration needs. They offer over 38 years of combined experience in the health care field ensuring superior service. They provide credentialing assistance, contact management, mail, call and fax screening and forwarding, rate negotiations, bookkeeping, travel arrangements and more.

Their goal is to provide professional VA services that cater to the Healthcare Industry with a strong emphasis on assisting those who provide temporary physician services. "We felt this industry was being overlooked and with our experience and knowledge we are able to assist and ease the administrative burdens without them having to hire a personal assistant and worry about more administrative hassles. We can have all their necessary documents organized in one place and accessible in a moment’s notice." says owner Miki Von Luckner who spent five years working closely with radiologists, anesthesiologists, CRNAs and many healthcare administrators as a senior account manager for a leading company specializing in Locum Tenens.

To learn more about virtual assistants or how Von Management Group can help you, visit http://www.von-group.com or contact Miki at mivo@von-group.com or by phone at 817-284-0342.

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Miki Von Luckner can be reached for comment or questions at mivo@von-group.com or by phone 817-284-0342.