One Cure For Staffing Woes

摘要

Like many large health-care companies with multiple facilities, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center depends on nurses from dozens of temporary-staffing agencies. Because of the industrywide nursing shortage, staffing agencies compete to attract talent, which often means upping wages for temporary workers. Those costs are passed on to customers like the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; on any given day, it could have hundreds of agency-provided nurses at its 19 That meant even staffing coordinators at individual facilities had a hard time knowing how much they spent on agency-provided nurses.