Two little words, “Contract Labor” are almost considered curse words to hospital systems. You are probably even scared to utter them publically. Many hospitals are concerned about MSPs and contract labor entering the ever-changing healthcare arena. But in this day and age of the Affordable Care Act we
Contract labor is a fact of life for many hospital systems, especially as the Affordable Care Act transcends among us, and bed count rises exponentially. Using a managed service provider is one of the many ways acute care facilities and hospital systems are managing appropriate staffing levels.
As the Director of Sales for BlueSky, I hear many story’s about other providers and of course the 100 reasons why customers hate their current healthcare staffing software. One of the biggest and newest complaints is certain company’s that are not staying current with new technology. WHAT? How can you
What is being called by the World Health Organization (WHO as, “The Most Severe Health Emergency in Modern Times,” the Ebola outbreak, is definitely putting the damper on healthcare recruiting and staffing. According to the latest WHO figures, the Ebola epidemic has killed more than 4,000 people worldwide. And as of Sunday,
Education is power during the Ebola Outbreak Last week I wrote a blog entitled, “Healthcare recruiting during the Ebola outbreak,” and asked, “how are you handling this health emergency?” Just a few days later, our strategic partners at Prophecy Healthcare launched an Ebola Education Module, called “Ebola: Communicable Disease Preparedness,”
Now, you probably have your work Halloween party coming up this week and want to make sure you have something appropriate but different, right? Well the BlueSky team brainstormed and came up with a great list of costumes specifically for healthcare staffing. Check them out!
With the holidays approaching, we will hear the saying, “Good things come in small packages.” For women, this usually means visions of diamonds and jewelry and for guys they are fantasizing of a key to the sports car they’ve always wanted. I recently read an article in Venture Beat about
There are questions that should be asked during every sales demo for healthcare staffing software and these questions are missed almost every time I do a demo. There are some basic questions that I think NEED TO BE ASKED that people just DON’T ASK. Shhhh… It’s my secret So listen
Ahhh… Thanksgiving week and the kick off to the holiday season is finally upon us, but for those of us in healthcare staffing we know that this is truly the silly season.
