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What Does a Travel Nurse Do and How Do They Affect Talent Management?

What Does a Travel Nurse Do and How Do They Affect Talent Management?

February 28, 2024/By Tamara Miller

Contingent workers have become a mainstay in the healthcare space, particularly travel nurses. With inflation affecting supply chains in nearly every sector, skill gaps ever widening, and a seemingly-endless talent shortage, it's no wonder facilities are increasingly reliant on travel staff. However, travel nurses come at a premium cost, so overreliance on them can hemorrhage dollars. They also change the way talent management strategies are implemented.

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To Break Down the Hiring Barriers in Locums, it is Vital to Be Prepared

To Break Down the Hiring Barriers in Locums, it is Vital to Be Prepared

September 01, 2023/By Trevor Strauss, MBA

Utilizing multiple locum agencies with individual contacts for each specialty can easily become overwhelming and impossible to manage. Due in part to a lack of advancement and modernization in locum tenens staffing over the last decade, many organizations are now seeking new ways to streamline the process. 

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Providing Strategic Vaccination Services to Hard-to-Reach Communities

Providing Strategic Vaccination Services to Hard-to-Reach Communities

June 09, 2021/By Jeff Niles

The introduction of the COVID-19 vaccine brought a sigh of relief to most Americans, signaling a gradual shift to normalcy. This return to normal, however, will not come easy. The vaccine alone can not solve the problem—it will take widespread vaccinations to put an end to the global pandemic. Since the onset of the pandemic, Healthcare Workforce Logistics (HWL) has doubled down on what it does best — mobilizing healthcare professionals where they’re needed most and providing creative solutions like mobile vaccination sites to the nation’s most difficult to reach communities.

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HWL Forms Strategic Partnerships to Meet the COVID-19 Surge at Banner Health & Beyond

HWL Forms Strategic Partnerships to Meet the COVID-19 Surge at Banner Health & Beyond

March 22, 2021/By Jeff Niles

In times of crisis, it is vital for healthcare organizations to lean on the right outside partners to supplement their own resources. The fall of 2020 was a difficult one, ushering in yet another surge of COVID-19 patients to hospitals and clinics across the nation and stretching critical healthcare staff—Banner Health was no exception. In mid-November, Banner’s Managed Services Provider (MSP), Healthcare Workforce Logistics (HWL), put out the request for physicians through its Vendor Management System (VMS). David Gibbons, a healthcare consultant at Floyd Lee Locums, saw the openings and eagerly performed the search. As a newly contracted vendor for Banner, Floyd Lee Locums was tasked with presenting high-performing candidates quickly while adhering to Banner’s internal hiring process.  

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4 of the Most Effective Talent Management Initiatives for Healthcare Companies

4 of the Most Effective Talent Management Initiatives for Healthcare Companies

October 12, 2018/By Tamara Miller

 

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