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Permanent Leadership Search for Hospitals and Health Systems

The right clinical leader shapes your team, your culture, and your organization's direction for years to come. The search that finds them should be built to the same standard.

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Luna Search Group is Built for Strategic Clinical Leadership

Most search firms fill roles. Luna Search Group places leaders ready to step in, make strategic decisions, and build the continuity your organization needs.

Customized search models

Search fees structured around how your organization hires. Contingent for active roles, retained for confidential or high priority searches, and project based for multi role leadership builds. Pricing stays clear and aligned to your scope.

Quick candidate turnaround

Leadership vacancies create urgency. Luna Search Group moves immediately, working a nationwide network of clinical leaders to surface qualified, thoroughly screened candidates ready to interview.

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Faster leadership placement

Luna Search Group helps reduce time to fill by moving quickly on critical leadership roles, ensuring your team gains access to qualified candidates without delay. Every candidate is NPDB checked, reference verified, and assessed for clinical and cultural fit.

Shared responsibility through every step

Hiring a clinical leader requires alignment at every stage. Luna Search Group supports both your team and candidates from intake through onboarding to ensure a smooth process and no gaps between interview and start date.

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Leadership Roles We Cover

We place clinical leaders across the
full spectrum of healthcare roles.

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Chief Medical Officers

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Chief Nursing Officers

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Chief Operating officers

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Chief of Staff

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VP of Medical Affairs

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VP of Clinical Operations

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Medical Directors

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Dental Directors

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Associate Medical Directors

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Clinical Division Directors

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Service Line Directors

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Department Chiefs

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Section Chiefs

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Physician Executives

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Behavioral Health Leadership

A Structured Search Built
Around Your Organization

1. Discovery and solution session

Your search begins with a deep understanding of your organization, not just the job description. Salary bands, cultural dynamics, strategic direction, and the qualities that cultivate success in your environment.

2. Search activation

Your role reaches a nationwide network of clinical leaders immediately, including those not actively looking but open to the right opportunity.

3. Candidate recruitment

You only see candidates who have already been assessed and vetted against your requirements. Deep reference checks, NPDB screening, leadership experience, career trajectory, and organizational fit are evaluated before anything reaches your desk.

4. Interview facilitation

Your team is supported through every stage of the interview process. Communication managed. Timelines held. The right questions surfaced so you can make a confident decision.

5. Offer negotiation and transition

Your offer process is guided from both sides, ensuring alignment on compensation, expectations, and start logistics. Credentialing and onboarding are monitored so the transition holds.

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Your search begins with a deep understanding of your organization, not just the job description. Salary bands, cultural dynamics, strategic direction, and the qualities that cultivate success in your environment.

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The True Cost of a
Leadership Gap

A leadership vacancy does not just leave an empty office. It changes how your team operates, how decisions move, and how patients experience care. Every week the role sits open, the cost compounds.

Decision making slows down

Clinical and operational decisions stall or pile onto the leaders already carrying the load. Strategic projects pause. Service line growth waits.

Burnout accelerates

Extended leadership gaps add pressure to clinical teams who are already carrying full workloads, increasing stress and fatigue over time.

Retention
takes a hit

The clinicians absorbing the gap were not hired to fill it. The longer they carry it, the more likely they are to leave.

Financial and operational strain builds

Leadership vacancies can quietly impact productivity, efficiency, and service line performance, creating ripple effects across revenue and capacity.

Continuity of care suffers

Patients, families, and referring providers notice the absence of stable leadership. Trust takes longer to rebuild than the search takes to complete.

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The True Cost of a Leadership Gap

A leadership vacancy does not just leave an empty office. It changes how your team operates, how decisions move, and how patients experience care. Every week the role sits open, the cost compounds.

Decision making slows down

Clinical and operational decisions stall or pile onto the leaders already carrying the load. Strategic projects pause. Service line growth waits.

Burnout accelerates

Extended leadership gaps add pressure to clinical teams who are already carrying full workloads, increasing stress and fatigue over time.

Retention takes a hit

The clinicians absorbing the gap were not hired to fill it. The longer they carry it, the more likely they are to leave.

Financial and operational strain builds

Leadership vacancies can quietly impact productivity, efficiency, and service line performance, creating ripple effects across revenue and capacity.

Continuity of care suffers

Patients, families, and referring providers notice the absence of stable leadership. Trust takes longer to rebuild than the search takes to complete.

Proven Across Healthcare Organizations

"Faster than any search firm we've used. Qualified candidates in our inbox before we expected them."

Chief Medical Officer

Regional Health System
"The interview process was seamless. Every candidate came prepared and already understood our environment."
VP of Talent Acquisition
Multi-Site Health System
"We've used national firms before. This felt different. More like a partner than a vendor."
CEO
Independent Health System
"No back and forth, no filtering through irrelevant CVs. Just the right candidates, ready to go."
Chief People Officer
Academic Medical Center
"Our Medical Director search closed in weeks. We didn't think that was possible at this level."
COO
Community Hospital

Explore Your Next Permanent Role

Looking for your next permanent role? Luna's nationwide network gives you access to permanent roles matched to where you are in your career and where you want to go next.

Interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO) - $18,500/wk

Dallas, TX
5 days/week

Interim Chief Medical Officer (CMO) - $16,200/wk

Boston, MA
5 days/week

Interim Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) - $11,400/wk

Atlanta, GA
5 days/week

Interim Chief Financial Officer (CFO) - $14,800/wk

Los Angeles, CA
5 days/week

Interim VP of Medical Affairs - $13,500/wk

Chicago, IL
5 days/week

Interim Chief Information Officer (CIO) - $12,900/wk

Seattle, WA
5 days/week

Interim Director of Nursing (DON) - $7,800/wk

Phoenix, AZ
5 days/week

Interim Director of Surgical Services - $8,200/wk

Miami, FL
5 days/week + leadership call

Interim VP of Human Resources - $9,500/wk

Denver, CO
5 days/week

Interim Director of Emergency Services - $7,900/wk

Austin, TX
5 days/week

Interim Executive Director (Long-Term Care) - $6,800/wk

Nashville, TN
5 days/week

Interim Director of Quality & Patient Safety - $7,400/wk

Philadelphia, PA
5 days/week

Interim Practice Administrator (Large Group) - $6,200/wk

Charlotte, NC
5 days/week

Interim Director of Case Management - $6,500/wk

San Francisco, CA
5 days/week

Interim Chief Compliance Officer - $11,100/wk

New York, NY
5 days/week

Interim Director of Pharmacy - $7,100/wk

Columbus, OH
5 days/week

Interim VP of Revenue Cycle - $10,500/wk

Houston, TX
5 days/week

Interim Director of Critical Care - $7,600/wk

Minneapolis, MN
5 days/week

Interim Healthcare Consultant (Turnaround Strategy) - $15,000/wk

Las Vegas, NV
4 days/week (On-site), 1 day (Remote)

Interim Director of Behavioral Health - $7,200/wk

San Diego, CA
5 days/week

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Start Your Leadership Search
with Confidence

Healthcare organizations that work with Luna Search Group move from costly vacancies and revolving leadership to a structured search built around their organization. Quick candidate turnaround. Deep reference checks. Leaders aligned for the long haul.

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start your search
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Start Your Leadership Search with Confidence

Healthcare organizations that work with Luna Search Group move from costly vacancies and revolving leadership to a structured search built around their organization. Quick candidate turnaround. Deep reference checks. Leaders aligned for the long haul.

Book a Call
start your search