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Industry focus: Health care Designing retirement plans to recruit, retain health workers.

By Ray, David
Publication: Employee Benefit News
Date: Thursday, June 15 2006

The health care sector can offer a meaningful glimpse into the importance of designing and packaging retirement plans as a strategic recruiting and retention tool.

As the battle over personnel heats up, particularly in major metropolitan areas that are fiercely competing for nurses, imaging technicians and pharmacists, it will become increasingly important for health care plan sponsors to focus on retirement plan design as a means to attract and retain a high-performance workforce.

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