Healthcare IT Today October 23, 2023
Staffing has become alarmingly tight in health care, driven by aging and a less healthy population, an aging workforce, bureaucratic demands from payers that disincentivize staff, and the traumas of the COVID-19 crisis and increasing violence against staff. Temps, often traveling long distances, have been making up the difference between supply and demand in staffing. The critical shortage has interfered with well-intentioned regulatory goals.
ShiftMed, though, has been taking a sleeker and friendlier direction in temporary staffing.
On the institutional side, pressures to reduce staff costs intersect with desperate needs to fill staffing gaps. ShiftMed serves hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and in-home providers.
On the nurses’ side, staff want high-quality placements at times that are convenient for them. They often...
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