Furst Group - Executive Search Services
History / Overview
Furst Group is in its fourth decade of providing premier executive search and leadership solutions firm serving the healthcare and life sciences industries. Our experience in evaluating talent, leadership, and culture helps companies align their organizations to execute their strategic initiatives. Our relationships, processes, and attention to details put a premium on service excellence and client satisfaction.
Furst Group is ranked as a Top 10 executive search firm by Modern Healthcare and one of “America’s Best Executive Search Firms” by Forbes. We partner with many of the premier healthcare organizations in the world, from providers and payers to life-science companies and private equity/venture capital firms. We align talent acquisition strategies with the mission, culture and future growth needs of our clients, allowing them to attract, develop and retain high-performing leaders.
While our roots are in managed care, we continue to be one of the nation’s leading executive search partners to health systems, hospitals, academic medical centers, post-acute and hospice and palliative care facilities. Our works with insurers stretches back to the dawn of the HMO era, yet we also team with life science, pharmaceutical and medical device companies.
Testimonials
“Very consistent bench strength demonstrated by the entire Furst Group team, including knowledge of our organization, the industry, the candidates, and strategy. Other firms have not presented such a strong and consistent team.”
“My experience with Furst was exceptional. We plan to use your firm again for future searches. I was particularly impressed with your ability to find a broad slate of candidates.”
“I would absolutely recommend Furst Group! They were excellent to work with, professional, knowledgeable, transparent, organized, and available. Their counsel was thoughtful and spot-on. A great partnership!”
“I would highly recommend the Furst Group as a recruitment partner. The depth of industry knowledge, thoroughness of vetting candidates, interactions with the recruitment team and caliber of candidates presented was exactly what our organization needed.”
Rebecca Kapphahn is an accomplished recruiter and talent advisor with more than 20 years of experience in healthcare executive search.
She partners with healthcare organizations to attract and retain world-class talent for executive roles in for-profit and non-profit organizations, including hospitals, health systems, medical groups, academic medical centers, children’s hospitals, and managed care.
Email Rebecca and explore what Furst Group can do for you. [email protected]


