Supporting Healthcare Workers During the Pandemic
As predicted, the COVID-19 crisis has 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 to provide support for healthcare workers (both contingent and permanent) during this time.…
A Healthcare Advisory Board With Wisdom, Vision, and Experience
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…
Proven Strategies to Overcome the Nursing Shortage
Labor strategy is always front of mind for our health system clients, and we understand why. Labor, and specifically clinical labor, represents more than 50% of a health system’s costs. And no company has stepped up to be a true partner to help health systems address their heart-of-the-matter labor challenges. How do we know this? …
What to Do About Wasted Administrative Hours in Your Hospital
The New York Times reports that the U.S. leads the world in healthcare administrative costs, citing findings from a 2018 study comparing global healthcare expenditures. Why? The complexity of our healthcare system, for one, but also “hiring and managing doctors and other employees” and “maintaining information systems,” says the Times. If wasteful administrative hours were…