How Hospitals Have Redeployed FTE Staff amid COVID-19
As the COVID-19 health crisis continues, health systems have embraced two strategies with their FTEs. By exploring these strategies, we…
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10 Strategies for Securing and Utilizing Travelers to Help Meet COVID-19 Demand: Part 3
This is part three of a three-part series, which will be posted weekly. You can read part one by clicking here…
10 Strategies for Securing and Utilizing Travelers to Help Meet COVID-19 Demand: Part 2
This is part two of a three-part series, which will be posted weekly. You can read part one by clicking…
10 Strategies for Securing and Utilizing Travelers to Help Meet COVID-19 Demand: Part 1
This is part one of a three-part series, which will be posted weekly. For notifications on new content, make sure you’re following us on LinkedIn. With health systems exploring many viable labor strategies including telehealth, upskilling/cross-training team members, utilizing part-time or per diem resources, moving patients and/or staff around within a system, we felt…
Nurses on the Frontlines: Dawne A. Southworth, MSN, RN, CEN, TCRN – Clinical Director, SimpliFi
Healthcare systems and political leaders have been sounding the call for medical professionals to offer aid during the COVID-19 health crisis. Even retired nurses and physicians have been asked to provide whatever help they can. Many have responded with selfless valor — knowing full well the kind of risks they face. Clinicians in the…
Nurses on the Frontlines: Ivvy Yong, BSN, RN – Clinical Director, SimpliFi
As intensity continues to build with the COVID-19 health crisis, the call for doctors and nurses has been significant. Many have responded with selfless valor, though the threat is very real. Some sources have even asked medical professionals to come out of retirement to provide support and relief from the siege of COVID-19. But…
3 Ways SimpliFi Is Providing Strategic Support to Clinicians & Health Systems During the Crisis
As predicted, the COVID-19 crisis is having a considerable impact on U.S. healthcare workers and hospital leaders, who are trying to effectively care for patients, shore up personnel, and source needed equipment. In response, SimpliFi is actively participating with our client health systems and healthcare workers (both contingent and permanent) to ensure that they have…
SimpliFi Assembles an Advisory Board of Healthcare Experts to Glean Insights on the Industry’s Biggest Challenges
SimpliFi’s Advisory Board From the left: Catharine MacLaren, Claire Zangerle, Mary Stowe, Bonnie Phipps, and Sebastien Girard. Not pictured: June Altaras In October 2019, SimpliFi executives and team members met with a specially assembled team of healthcare experts for roundtable discussions. While this elite group provides ongoing advice to SimpliFi, the goal of the…
What Can Last Year’s Travel Nursing Trends Tell Us?
On November 13, 2019, SimpliFi’s team released a set of travel nursing trends after comparing data from the summer of 2018 to the summer of 2019. This is what we discovered: Travel nursing increased 44% The top four growing specialties all fall within critical care, with each at an increased rate of 60% or higher…