If your healthcare facility struggles with expensive, just-in-time coverage, know you’re not alone. According to one study, 63% of healthcare providers said their organizations are struggling to meet the demand for physician access, and 32% said patient concerns or complaints about access to physicians are increasing

If your healthcare facility struggles with expensive, just-in-time coverage, know you&rsquo;re not alone. According to one study, 63% of healthcare providers said their organizations are struggling to meet the demand for physician access, and 32% said patient concerns or complaints about access to physicians are increasing.<a href="https://www.kaufmanhall.com/sites/default/files/2023-10/KH-Report_2023-State-Healthcare-Performance-Improvement.pdf?utm_source=agcy&utm_campaign=performance-improvement-report&utm_medium=pr&utm_term=231024" target="_blank">i</a>

Your core purpose is to treat and heal patients. When open roles go unfilled, patient outcomes suffer. Are you ready to explore a solution to reduce labor costs and reliance on staffing agencies while boosting employee and patient satisfaction?

An internal resource pool (IRP) is a central database of vetted, credentialed workforce professionals comprising core and contingent staff. It can save you both time and money when you have immediate fill needs that might typically necessitate high-cost agency labor or paying overtime. Having an IRP can help you provide cost-effective coverage for staff sick days, unplanned medical leave and staff callouts, unexpected employee turnover, or a spike in patient census.

Establishing an IRP can deliver real benefits for your healthcare organization. For instance:

<ul>
	<li>Significant Cost Savings 
	When more cost-effective internal resources are utilized, you can expect a 10% to 20% reduction in labor costs. You also save by reducing ongoing administrative costs and receive better internal savings from employee engagement and rate management.</li>
	<li>Better Employee Retention and Engagement 
	An IRP provides flexibility for healthcare professionals, leading to improved attendance and punctuality, less employee turnover, and streamlined onboarding at reduced costs.</li>
	<li>Improved Patient Care and Satisfaction 
	You can improve nurse-to-bedside time, enhance continuity of care, reduce fill times, and improve fill rates.</li>
</ul>

An IRP is most effectively managed via a digital platform that includes strategic decision-making features and intuitive dashboards, providing instant access to performance and quality metrics. Workflow automation significantly reduces or eliminates manual administrative tasks, and innovative pooling allows for easy compliance verification, tracking, and alignment to groups of or individual facilities/units. Configuration at the pool level allows for floating in and out of pools, scheduling at the pool level, and shift calendaring at the pool, hospital system and professional levels. In addition, you can add Cross Country&rsquo;s proprietary Vendor Management System, enabling an extension to contingent contract and per diem personnel.

We also offer a mobile app to empower and deliver flexibility to your people. The app, IntelliShift&trade;, provides instant access to available shifts and seamless management of open shifts to help put your people in charge of viewing and customizing their schedules. Additionally, the app chat feature allows you to quickly communicate with your clinicians when they're on the go. This, in turn, reduces staff burnout, improves employee retention and enables your organization to become a profit center with internal agency capability. And if that&rsquo;s not enough, you can use predictive modeling to optimize your workforce over time.

Take a few minutes to explore whether an IRP suits your organization. Book your free demo today.

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Reduce Labor Costs, Boost Employee and Patient Satisfaction