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Reduced Mortality Linked to Adequate Nurse Staffing
Bridging gaps in patient care can save lives, experts say. Healthcare employers are deploying web-based workforce management solutions such as vendor management to fill open positions. Vendor...
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“Wired” on the way to Meaningful Use
You may be familiar with Hospital & Healthcare Networks “Most Wired” survey. It measures the adoption of information technologies by healthcare providers aimed at improving patient care and safety....
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Fast Growing Contingent Workforce Fueling Demand for Healthcare Staffing...
More healthcare employers hiring temporary medical professionals in wake of recession A recent employment survey conducted by the staffing industry’s leading job board suggests that temporary workers...
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National Hospital Week fuels staffing best practices
It all started on Florence Nightingale’s Birthday May 12, 1921. A Chicago magazine editor declared National Hospital Day to boost trust in city hospitals in the wake of the Spanish Flu. As more states...
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Is profitability for hospitals a thing of the past?
Or will hospitals leverage healthcare staffing technologies in favor of the bottom line? With third-party payor reimbursements dropping below sustainable levels and healthcare reform shrinking Medicare...
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Healthcare Employers report Quality, Rapid Hires and Cost as Top Three...
Of the 120 healthcare executives participating in a recent nurse staffing study, * 63 percent ranked quality as the number one reason they planned to hire more travel nurses and temporary labor in...
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Healthcare is hiring again, a signal for Healthcare Employers to explore...
The numbers are in. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported healthcare leading the nation in job creation the first nine months of 2011. September was a banner month, reports Labor, with healthcare...
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Healthcare Staffing Software Tracks Nurse Performance
High level of sanitation vital to patient safety and to lowering readmissions and morbidity A shocking story published in the Wall Street Journal* last month is enough to make your skin crawl. No, it...
View Article5 Tips to Efficient Therapist Recruitment
Physical and Occupational Therapists are in high demand. Candidate Direct aims to keep healthcare employers staffed. With millions more Americans gaining access to healthcare, how will employers...
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Preparing for the next Nurse Shortage
Vendor management software ensures nurses today and tomorrow As healthcare employers, we would probably be better off to resolve ourselves to the fact that we live in a constant state of ‘nurse...
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Healthcare Vendor Management: Helping Healthcare Providers Address Regional...
Fueled in Part by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Healthcare Staffing isn’t always easy. Especially if a healthcare provider’s local labor pool doesn’t support the RN specialists...
View ArticleTrauma Center Expansion on the Rise but Healthcare Staffing Still a Problem
Construction of new hospitals has flatlined somewhat in 2012 while healthcare executives measure the impact of the Affordable Care Act. According to Health Facilities Management magazine, “Industry...
View Article5 Medical Technology Advances of 2012
While the economy was unable to make any real advances in 2012, that was not the case with medical technology breakthroughs. The following are five medical technology advances that occurred in 2012....
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Is Cutting Healthcare Staff the Cure for Medicare Reductions?
With two separate Medicare reductions taking effect in the first half of this year, it’s understandable that healthcare providers are lamenting the potential loss of healthcare jobs. It’s a big pill to...
View Article3 Ways to Streamline Your Healthcare Recruiting
Rapid change affects recruiting efforts in any industry. But when a patient’s health is on the line, as in the healthcare industry, it’s extremely important to make the right hires consistently. The...
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How Employers are Keeping Up with Increased Healthcare Hiring Demand
The healthcare industry added another 32,000 job postings in February in addition to the 30,000 openings per month it has been averaging over the past year. Some healthcare facilities seem better...
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$100 Million for Brain Mapping Initiative in Federal Budget
In January’s State of the Union address, President Obama announced the inclusion of $100 million in the upcoming 2014 federal budget for research on a brain mapping project. While the announcement has...
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More Than a Third of Healthcare Workers Seeking New Jobs
If the shortage of skilled labor wasn’t enough of a recruitment problem for healthcare providers, a recent CareerBuilder survey reveals that 34% of healthcare workers will be looking for new jobs in...
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Are You One of the 80% of Healthcare Employers that have Experienced a Bad Hire?
A recent Harris Interactive survey revealed that 80 percent of healthcare employers experienced a bad hire in 2012 with adverse effects to the organization and, ultimately, wasted money for the hiring...
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Ask the Right Questions When Choosing a Workforce Management System
With healthcare recruitment constantly in flux due to an aging population, an aging healthcare workforce, and the seemingly never-ending stream of government legislation, it’s more important than ever...
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