The CRNA Recruiting
& Coverage Planning
Toolkit
Five free resources for planning anesthesia coverage before a gap opens: a hiring checklist, a coverage risk self-assessment, pay benchmarks, the 2026 shortage briefing, and an ROI calculator.
One coverage gap and you're canceling cases.
Take what's useful, share it with your team, and keep it for the next time coverage gets tight.
7 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Locum Agency
- Covers time-to-fill, renewal rate, vetting process, and fee transparency
- Separates agencies that deliver from ones that just fill a schedule
Have the exact questions ready before your next partner conversation, whether or not that partner is us.
CRNA Coverage Risk Checklist
- Six categories: schedule resilience, provider availability, call and burnout exposure
- Scores your exposure as high, moderate, or low
Most facilities don't find out how exposed they are until someone resigns. This checklist tells you first.
CRNA Shortage: Executive Briefing 2026
- Retirements, surging surgical demand, longer training pipelines, and burnout
- Actionable near-term and long-term steps for facility leaders
Useful for getting your leadership team on the same page about the "why" before you're forced to act.
Benchmark Report: CRNA Locums Pay Rates by Region (2025–26)
- Direct CRNA pay rates by care setting and region
- Explains the gap between bill rate and direct pay rate
Sanity-check any staffing proposal and negotiate from market data.
ROI Calculator for Locum CRNAs
- Weighs the real cost of an open OR day or vacant anesthesia line against locum coverage
- Turns the coverage decision into a numbers question
See the math for your own facility in about a minute.
Bonus: A 25-Minute Strategy Call
- A straight conversation about your coverage picture
- Optional, book it only if it's useful
We'll tell you how fast we can help and what to expect.
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Recruiting Toolkit
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Why facility leaders work with AVEA CRNA.
Full Rate Transparency
We share both the bill rate and our margin. You always know exactly what the CRNA is earning and what you're paying for the placement service.
CRNA-Led Recruiting
Your recruiter is an experienced CRNA who knows what qualified looks like in the OR and can judge candidate fit in ways a non-clinical recruiter can't.
~3 Weeks to Qualified Candidate
We take on a limited number of facilities at a time, so your opening gets our attention from kickoff to placement.
Locum + Permanent, Both Tracks
Cover your immediate gap with a locum while we run a parallel permanent search, with one partner handling both.
"What set them apart was that they actually understood what we needed clinically. They asked the right questions from the very first call." Sara Gabrick, CNO/COO, Winona Health
Get the Toolkit, Then Let's Talk.
Grab the toolkit above, then book a free 25-minute strategy call if you'd like to talk through your coverage picture.