Search built from the operator's side of the desk.
Dotson Search Partners & Advisors places the executives and physicians who run healthcare organizations — led by a founder who spent nearly three decades running them. Every consultant on our team brings 25 or more years of healthcare industry experience.
Most firms send résumés. We send people we can evaluate.
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
We've held the roles we fill, built the teams you're building, and answered to the same boards and P&Ls you do.
Jason Dotson spent nearly thirty years as a healthcare operator before he started placing them — chief executive of a multi-site specialty platform, president of an 83-clinic physician network, and vice president over a ten-location system.
That experience runs well beyond staffing. He has secured Certificates of Need for ambulatory surgery centers — both new facilities and operating room expansions — led ground-up construction projects, and guided mergers, acquisitions, and the integration work that follows. He has also managed the full arc of physician transitions, onboarding new recruits and offboarding established providers.
Less visibly, he has shaped organizations from within — authoring the mission, vision, and values at his most recent company and building its first employee recognition program around them, lifting both employee and physician engagement.
That depth is shared across the firm. Every consultant on our team brings 25 or more years of healthcare industry experience, so the judgment applied to each search is grounded in real operating history, not theory.
That vantage point changes the search. We know what the job actually demands day to day, we can tell real competence from a polished interview, and we protect your time by advancing only candidates who can do the work — clinically, operationally, and culturally.
The result is a shorter, stronger slate and placements that hold. Fewer names, better fits, less risk to your organization.
MS · MBA · FACMPE — Fellow, American College of Medical Practice Executives · Past President, Washington State Healthcare Leaders Association
The credential behind the search.
Before founding the firm, Jason ran the kinds of organizations our clients lead. This is the operating history that informs every search and advisory engagement.
Four ways we help healthcare organizations put the right people in the right roles — and set them up to succeed.
Executive Search
Retained and contingency search for leadership roles where fit, discretion, and staying power matter more than speed.
- C-suite, VP, and director roles
- Practice and service-line leadership
- Confidential and succession searches
Physician & Clinical Recruitment
Physicians, advanced practice clinicians, and the hard-to-fill clinical and technical roles that sit open for months.
- Specialty & primary care physicians
- Advanced practice & allied health
- Hard-to-fill imaging, lab & technical roles
- Physician groups, ASCs & community health
Practice Management Consulting
Operator-level help with the problems that don't fit a job description — feasibility, growth, integration, and running a practice well.
- ASC feasibility, pro formas & CON strategy
- M&A integration & new practice startups
- Compensation design & org structure
- Access, productivity & performance improvement
Interim Leadership
Seasoned leadership on short notice — director level through the C-suite — to hold the line while you run the permanent search.
- Director, VP & C-suite coverage
- Clinic, practice & ASC operations
- Stabilization through transition
A vetted bench of partners — not a referral list.
Running a practice takes more than the right people. When a client needs capability we don't provide ourselves, we introduce a partner we've already put through our own diligence. We are continuously vetting vendor partners to become part of our preferred vendor list, so this network will keep growing.

Healthcare IT & Security
Managed IT, infrastructure, and security built for clinical environments — where downtime interrupts patient care and compliance isn't optional.
Facility Design & Construction
Clinic, ASC, and medical office projects — from feasibility and space planning through construction and buildout in occupied, operating facilities.
Facility Preventative Maintenance & Compliance
Proactive facility maintenance, inspections, and repair for medical clinics and ASCs across the Pacific Northwest — keeping buildings compliant, safe, and fully operational for OSHA, AAAHC, and other accrediting bodies. Scheduled preventive maintenance programs, compliance inspections, reliable repair solutions, and 24/7 on-call support. Visit partner site
Revenue Cycle & Coding
Coding, documentation, and revenue cycle support that protects reimbursement and holds up under audit.
Executive Coaching & Leadership Development
One-on-one and team coaching for healthcare leaders — from physicians stepping into management to executives navigating their first 90 days. We partner with experienced coaches who have held the seat and know what the job actually asks.
Workforce Health Access Partner
Virtual care and prescriptions at zero cost to employees, funded by the employer on a fixed PEPM basis. Resolves routine encounters outside the health plan and off the loss ratio, with a 50-state network, free Rx home delivery, and a 2–4 week rollout that requires no IT integration or open-enrollment window.
How a partner earns a place here
We've sat on the buying side of every one of these categories. Partners are evaluated the way we'd evaluate a vendor for our own organization — and we introduce them only when the fit is real. If we don't have the right partner for what you need, we'll tell you that instead.
Interested in becoming a partner?
Tell us about your company and services. We review every submission and reach out if there's a fit.
A disciplined process, run by someone who's done the job.

Scope
We start with the reality of the role — the work, the team, the organization, and what success actually looks like six and twelve months in. No generic job spec.
Search
Targeted outreach and real vetting, with an operator's eye for competence and fit. You see a short, considered slate — not a stack of forwarded résumés.
Placement & beyond
We stay engaged through offer, onboarding, and the first stretch on the job, so the placement holds and both sides feel it was the right call.
Built for the settings we've run.
Health Systems
Regional and multi-site systems hiring operational and clinical leadership.
Physician Groups
Independent and employed groups building out providers and management.
Specialty & ASC
Specialty groups and ambulatory surgery centers — a lane we've operated firsthand.
FQHC & Community
Community health centers recruiting mission-aligned clinicians and leaders.
Searches we run on behalf of clients.
Most of our engagements are confidential and never posted publicly. If you are a physician, executive, or clinical leader exploring your next step, share your background with us and we'll reach out when a role matches your profile.
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Join our network.

We recruit for leadership and physician roles across the Pacific Northwest and beyond — many of which never reach a public job board.
Send your background and we'll keep it on file. When a role fits, you'll hear from us directly.
Your information is used only to evaluate you for current and future searches. We never share a résumé with a client without your permission.
Perspective from the search table.
Blog posts and conversations on healthcare leadership, physician recruitment, and building teams that stay. Our consultants each bring 25+ years in the industry — this is where that experience gets shared.
We are preparing our opening pieces on retained and contingency search, physician retention, and leadership transitions in ambulatory care. Send us a topic you would like covered — or tell us where the hiring is hardest right now.
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Tell us what you would like us to cover and we will put it in the queue.
Candid conversations with healthcare executives, physician leaders, and operators on what it actually takes to hire and keep great people. Episodes will land here first.
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Tell us about the role.
Whether you're filling a single leadership seat, recruiting physicians, or working through a harder organizational question, the first conversation is straightforward: what you need, and whether we're the right firm to help.
Share a few details and Jason will follow up directly — usually within one business day.
Direct: j@dotsonsearchpartners.com