Hiring for the Long Term: Attracting, Vetting, and Retaining Staff

This 60-minute virtual training focused on building and sustaining a strong clinical workforce at community health centers. Presented by Christine Callahan, RN, MBA, the session provided health center leaders with actionable frameworks for strategic hiring, robust credentialing, and retention-centered onboarding. Drawing on more than 30 years of healthcare and workforce experience, Callahan distinguished between pressure-driven and strategic hiring approaches, highlighted credentialing red flags and primary source verification best practices, and outlined a 90-day onboarding framework designed to support long-term staff retention and engagement.