Healthcare
Facilities

Improving workforce strategies

During these challenging times, healthcare providers are being asked to do more with less -- fewer insured patients, reduced resources and more regulatory requirements. All while ensuring the continuance of high quality patient care and compliance.

Because the cost of employing and managing contract labor is significant, many providers have sought new strategies for improved management of their supplemental staffing process.

Here’s what most discover:

• Automating processes and employing technology to better track and report data associated with the staffing process is critical. Without quantifying your performance you cannot measurably improve upon it. However, technology is only one piece of the solution – creating practical and effective staffing protocols and procedures, including standards for quality and price, are essential.
• Many healthcare providers have turned to business consultants to help them create staffing protocols and processes, as well as implement technology. The challenge so many encounter is that all too often consulting plans sound great in the Boardroom, but fall short of expectations in practice. Even though most consulting plans come with a hefty investment in a provider’s time and money, there simply are no guarantees.
• With a Managed Staffing Program, a healthcare provider essentially partners with a company whose core business is the recruitment, deployment and management of supplemental staff, such as AMN Healthcare's SingleSource®. Through 35 years of experience in per diem, travel and permanent placement staffing across the full medical spectrum, we have developed proprietary strategies and technology that address a facility’s staffing needs like no other solution can. At SingleSource®, we work with you to customize smart and practical protocols, to streamline and automate processes, to track and analyze performance, but most important to deliver guaranteed results in the form of fill rates, compliance and cost effectiveness.

AMN Healthcare's SingleSource® Guarantees Tangible Improvements

Here is a snapshot of a typical contract labor staffing model before and after the implementation of a SingleSource® partnership: