Private equity drives up healthcare staffing costs via consolidation & fee stacking. California’s new laws curb interference. Strategies for hospitals to fight back.
BlueSky Staffing Software’s 2025 Year in Review showed big improvements in functionality and introduced new partners.
The healthcare staffing industry is often described as cyclical, booms followed by corrections. But the collapse of the proposed acquisition by Aya Healthcare of Cross Country Healthcare, combined with renewed federal scrutiny of noncompete practices, signals something more structural: a shift in how regulators view labor markets, consolidation, and competition
The best VMS and healthcare staffing software for hospitals in 2026 helps health systems manage contingent labor, vendor relationships, and compliance in one platform.
FTC cracks down on healthcare noncompetes, targeting staffing firms like AMN/CHG. Implications for MSP/VMS deals, clinician mobility & contingent labor costs. Audit now.
FTC comments related to Aya Healthcare and Cross Country Healthcare staffing agencies terminated merger.
Hospital staffing remains steady despite federal budget uncertainty, with agencies leaning on contract extensions, local coverage, and tighter rate control. Learn how healthcare staffing firms can navigate these trends using smarter workforce planning and technology.
Discover how BlueSky supports healthcare staffing agencies at the 2025 SIA Summit. Visit our booth to learn about scheduling, compliance, and cost-saving solutions.
This week, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson issued a formal letter to healthcare providers and employers regarding the use of non-compete agreements in contracts with healthcare professionals.
FTC scrutiny of the Aya–Cross Country merger highlights risks of MSP consolidation in healthcare staffing and why hospitals need independent workforce control.
The healthcare staffing industry may be on the cusp of another major consolidation with the potential acquisition of Cross Country Healthcare by Aya Healthcare.
In December 2024, Aya Healthcare announced plans to go through with an acquisition of Cross Country Healthcare (Nasdaq: CCRN) in an all-cash deal valued at $615 million, or $18.61 per share. This represented a 67% premium over Cross Country’s pre-announcement closing price of $11.16. The announcement initially lifted CCRN’s stock
A key principle in analyzing business strategies is the time-tested adage: “Follow the money.” This approach is particularly relevant when examining the current landscape in Washington and its potential effects on the healthcare staffing sector. While it might seem unusual to link government actions to healthcare staffing, understanding the flow
How can hospitals hold on to nurses, bring new ones into the fold, and fend off extreme staffing shortages?
Let’s talk about the nursing shortage.
The holidays are notoriously difficult on medical facilities. And this holiday season should be no exception with the pandemic still lingering. As noted by Kelly Gooch of Becker’s Hospital Review, there are many unprecedented challenges in healthcare staffing that have made it more and more difficult to provide the care that patients
BlueSky Synergy announced today its formal release of BlueSky Medical Staffing Software Version 5.18. Due to the recent rise in travel nurse staffing rates, the technology released today becomes the first platform to provide hospitals complete control of subcontractor relationships.
Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday announced it had submitted data to the Food and Drug Administration for authorization of a booster shot of its single-dose COVID-19 vaccine, marking the latest effort by vaccine makers to gain approval for a new round of inoculations.
NY Gov. Hochul Signs Executive Order to Significantly Expand Eligible Workforce and Allow Additional Health Care Workers to Administer COVID-19 Testing and Vaccinations, Directs 24/7 Command Center to Monitor and Troubleshoot Staffing Shortages New York State First-in-Nation on Health Care Worker Vaccination Mandate �� 92% of Nursing Home Staff Compliant
What’s behind Alabama’s nursing shortage? BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) – There’s concern from hospitals across our state that we’re not only dealing with a surge in COVID patients but also a shortage of nurses.
Economic Momentum as Country Recovers from COVID Today, the President is building on economic momentum by signing an Executive Order to promote competition in the American economy, which will lower prices for families, increase wages for workers, and promote innovation and even faster economic growth.
The U.S. Labor Department released new COVID-19 workplace safety rules for healthcare June 10, including a requirement that healthcare employers provide workers with paid time off to get vaccinated and to recover from side effects.
Trinity Health’s St. Francis Medical Center in Trenton, New Jersey, has taken the first step toward potentially joining nearby system Capital Health, the providers announced last week.
When the pandemic hit, healthcare organizations were thrown into reaction mode, with many long-term projects being shelved indefinitely. However, health leaders were able to take some steps which not only addressed some of their current needs but set the stage for future growth.
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We don’t have to tell you that 2020/2021 has been a lot different than the prior years, for the healthcare staffing industry. As members of the American Staffing Association, we wanted to expand on recent discussions and insights that companies just like yours have been mulling over.
College basketball fans wait every year for the tradition and anticipation of March Madness. If you are student at one of these devout basketball schools, it is even more exciting to be a part of annual basketball ritual.
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You may have heard us talk about the training material we have been rewriting over the last 6 months. This is one of those projects that has taken the entire team to make it happen.
The three year anniversary of BlueSky Community Training is quickly approaching. Can you believe it has been that long? I can’t!
Like many of you, due to the terror attack at the Boston Marathon, I was glued to the news for most of last week watching as the horror unfolded. On Friday night I sat watching CNN like it was a movie, as they captured Suspect #2. Although, I am deeply
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With the nursing shortage in the United States, Hospitals and healthcare systems are saving cost and managing risk by moving their MSP in-house to manage hiring agencies and temporary staffing teams. Does this mean the new nurse graduates are going to be able to reach their future employers directly? Or
Conexus Medical Staffing Firm Named #4 of 2020 Fastest Growing Staffing Agencies by Staffing Industry Analysts
To Meet Healthcare Staffing Provider Needs, BlueSky Staffing Software’s Product Update Adds New Rate Features and Controls
President Donald Trump today signed an executive order to make permanent the temporary flexibilities for telehealth allowed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 18, 2020 — BlueSky Medical Staffing Software has released a powerful version update to its clinical talent management system. With hospitals facing financial challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic like increased costs, revenue losses and staffing shortages, locum tenens physicians, travel or temporary nurses and their employer agencies
BlueSky Medical Staffing Software is happy to announce our newest software update Upgrade 5.13. Below are the most anticipated features, please feel free to join us for the Community Training or a scheduled demo if there are additional questions.
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Especially now, traveling medical professionals provide a critical part of the healthcare we receive today. Why is it that there are so many traveling nurses though? It seems like there would be a middle-ground to find a local professional and mitigate the costs associated with bringing one in from out-of-state.
In a prior post, we discussed the phenomena of nurses swapping cities simultaneously to work for 13 weeks, then returning to their respective cities. It doesn’t occur to the requesting healthcare facilities, the source of all job orders, that at the same time they are pulling travel nurses from other
Aya Healthcare Statement Regarding AMN’s Practices and Recent Court Ruling SAN DIEGO, June 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Aya Healthcare has been successful in preventing AMN Healthcare from using unlawful contractual restraints to limit employee mobility in the travel nurse industry. AMN originally sued Aya and our employees in an attempt to prevent
This Gilbert staffing agency gets nurses and doctors to the front lines of the COVID-19 battle. In a typical week at AB Staffing Solutions, the Gilbert firm that places travel nurses and physicians in clinics and hospitals across the country, the company would find temporary professional homes for an average
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BlueSky Medical Staffing Software’s newest product, RapidHireTool.com, a Pay Package Calculator for Recruiters, has debuted this week in limited markets amidst one of the most challenging periods for the healthcare industry.
One of the biggest health IT related news items to come out was the announcement by Vice President Mike Pence that HHS was issuing a regulation to permit doctors to practice across state lines. State Medical Licensure is something that has baffled many of us that have worked in healthcare.
In the COVID-19 pandemic, 10,755 American cases have been reported, along with 154 deaths, as of 12 p.m. CDT, March 19. Worldwide, 229,390 cases and 9,325 deaths have been reported, while 84,557 people have recovered from the illness.
A monopoly in motion as Healthcare Staffing Agency purchases locum tenens software provider. SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — CHG Healthcare, the nation’s largest privately held healthcare staffing company, announced today the acquisition of LocumsMart, the leading locum tenens vendor management system (VMS).
Everyone wants to “bend the cost curve” by “breaking down silos”. We are all working towards “personalized medicine” by deploying “predictive analytics” and “big data” using “cloud computing”.
4 Ways to Set – and Achieve – Healthy Goals for 2020. Ready to ring in the new year with a set of healthy goals you can keep? Well, if you’re like most, those well-intentioned “new year’s resolutions” might be a thing of the past by Valentine’s Day. One of
2020 Healthcare Trend: Increased Focus on Population Health. Today, more and more hospitals and healthcare organizations are engaging in community health management, better known as population health. But what exactly does this term mean?
How Will Voice-User-Interface Help Shape Personalized Healthcare? If you’ve been following the trends over the past year, you’ve likely heard that the healthcare industry is on the cutting edge of Voice User Interface (VUI) technology. VUI is an exciting breakthrough for healthcare professionals that uses speech recognition to understand spoken