Contract Labor is not a Dirty Word: Lessons learned in leveraging contract labor and travelers to ensure the right staff are in the right place at the right time to support excellent quality care to patients.
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Demand Matching: a data-driven approach to ensuring your staff are in the right place at the right time.
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Experienced leaders know the turnaround time for hiring and orienting staff creates a greater vacancy burden than is typically seen on paper. When staff are unavailable to work, we rely on premium labor such as overtime or travelers to care for our patients, which can adversely impact our culture, outcomes, and hospital finances.
Hiring ahead is a strategy that allows us to quantify the true vacancy burden and hire the perfect number of FTEs and reduce avoidable premium pay.
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The impact of unavailable staff can lead to overreliance on premium labor and overtime leading to unnecessary labor spend. The hire ahead strategy can help ensure you have the right staff available to provide quality patient care by factoring in historical turnover and recruitment efforts to determine the department’s hire target.
This article walks through the hire-ahead exercise and how you can begin completing this at your facility.
While we all agree that departmental productivity depends on having the appropriate number of staff deployed at the right place, at the right time, and at the right price, we also probably agree that it is easier said than done. Many healthcare leaders leverage float pools to address staffing needs, only to find new problems developing after their establishment.
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