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“Highly technical and skilled staff will continue to seek opportunities to work for organizations that are willing to invest in their continued professional growth,” he said. That looks like raising wages, improving workflows and funding training programs, including the company’s Galen College of Nursing network.Īt Christus Children’s Hospital, chief medical officer Norman Christopher said there’s been a decline in dependence on contracted labor and a return to the more “normal” approach to employing key clinical staff, showing hospitals the importance of recruitment and retention. In April, HCA Healthcare reported it was close to pre-pandemic use of contract labor, and the organization is prioritizing investing into their staff. Hospitals across the country are experiencing the same phenomenon, like Nashville-based HCA Healthcare Inc., which manages eight Methodist hospitals in the San Antonio area. “I think most hospitals have become more stable in their hiring practices.”
“ that cycle is sort of slowly winding down,” he said. “We are seeing a market decrease in the number of contract labor nurses that both we need and are out there.”įor University Health, the workforce disruptions caused by the pandemic were the result of health care workers taking contract jobs elsewhere for higher pay, creating vacancies that could only be filled by more contract labor, Chief Medical Officer Bryan Alsip explained. “A lot of hospitals across the country are closing just because they can’t afford labor costs right now,” Lemus said. University Health said it is also seeing stabilization in contract labor versus long-term labor. The addition of the 325 former Texas Vista staffers will help fill those gaps, said Kristen Lemus, chief nurse executive for Baptist Health System. “They don’t do anything to level out the pay of the experienced nurses or retain them.”Īt one point, Baptist Health System had 300 contract nurses, but now only has 100. “I don’t think hospitals, in general, do enough retention for the nurses,” she said, adding that new hires are attracted by sign-on bonuses for two- to three-year commitments. Hutchin, who worked at Texas Vista for 12 years, said focusing on employee engagement and having retention bonuses for experienced staff would help keep employees happy in this changing employment landscape. Credit: Brenda Bazán / San Antonio Report Melissa Hutchin stands in front of what used to be the emergency entrance for the shuttered Texas Vista Hospital. Now they say they’re seeing a shift in the health care workforce back to in-house staff, rather than relying on temporary contracts to fill out their ranks. Many of the rest of the former staffers have taken jobs scattered across the South Texas area, said Tammy Windsor, former regional growth officer for Texas Vista Hospital, adding that there is no way to know the exact number, since there is no current staff in place to keep track of where they all went.Īt the peak of the pandemic, local hospitals relied on short-term, contract labor to handle the workload caused by COVID-19 cases.
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