OHA
Staffing Solutions
Ohio hospitals, like other hospitals across the country, are challenged
with health care workforce shortages. To help alleviate the mismatch
between supply and demand for staff, hospitals may turn to supplemental
staffing vendors to fill temporary vacancies. Even though the workforce
shortage seems to be easing in Ohio, quality supplemental agency staff
can help hospitals meet the peaks and valleys of occupancy as well as
the temporary leave of permanent staff. Having access to high quality,
affordable temporary staff can provide alternatives to mandating
overtime or closing beds.
To assist
Ohio hospitals with managing temporary staffing vendors, OHA
Solutions, a subsidiary of the
Ohio Hospital
Association, has developed a statewide program to help
ensure the quality of nursing and allied health professionals
and save hospital money on hourly rates and administrative
costs.
If you would
like to take advantage of this program, please contact
Nancy Melcher-Webb (nwebb@ohanet.org)
or Amy Bangert (amyb@ohanet.org)
at 614.221.7614.
The
OHA Solutions Staffing Program
has filled over 250,000 per diem shifts and over 9,000 long term orders since February 2005. OHA Solutions
contracts with 120 medical staffing agencies and branches from across
the nation to help over
100 participating OHA
member hospitals fill both per diem and long-term staff vacancies. The
service facilitates staffing services for nursing vacancies as well as
those in radiology, rehabilitation services, laboratory,
pharmacy and respiratory therapy and non-clinical specialties. |
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Contacts
Nancy Melcher-Webb
Director, OHA
Solutions Staffing Program
Amy Bangert
Manager,
Workforce Initiatives
Dorothy
Aldridge
Project and Database Manager
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