Partnership to Reduce Contract Labor Costs

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HANYS Solutions Partners with Adaptive Workforce
Solutions to Reduce Contract Labor Costs

[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1595287795553{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]HANYS Solutions, the for-profit subsidiary of the Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) has partnered with Adaptive Workforce Solutions to help ensure appropriate staffing and reduce contract labor costs for their members.

Michael Ilnicki, Executive Vice President at HANYS Solutions says, “Healthcare providers’ labor costs have skyrocketed amid the ongoing workforce shortage and, more recently, with the high demand for clinicians during the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Data from 2019 shows the total spend on contract labor for hospitals and health systems in the United States is about $28 billion and New York hospitals and health systems represent approximately $1.3 billion of that contract labor spend.

With roots in New York state, the AdaptiveWFS team understands the staffing challenges that healthcare facilities face daily. Through this partnership, HANYS members will have access to state of the art, vendor-neutral VMS technology at no cost. AdaptiveWFS’ team of experts will give HANYS members a transparent and reliable workforce management solution for centralizing the entire contract labor management process designed to meet their organizations staffing goal objectives.

When asked about the partnership, Beth Delricco, Adaptive Workforce Solutions’ Director of Business Development, said, “Many of these hospitals have no formal way of managing their contract labor spend or they are lacking the analytics and reporting to help them make more informed decisions. HANYS Solutions saw the benefit to partner with a company who could help streamline the process and save hospitals money when COVID-19 bill rates were out of control.”

AdaptiveWFS takes a 3^rd party, vendor-neutral approach and focuses on being an advocate for their clients.

Delricco says, “Because we are not a staffing company pushing our own technology, we’re able to step back and look out for our client’s best interests and advise them on the best course of action.”

 About Adaptive WFS:

Adaptive Workforce Solutions takes a collaborative approach in developing innovative workforce solutions for healthcare facilities across the country. Collectively, the AdaptiveWFS team has over 40+ years of experience working in the healthcare staffing and vendor management space. As consultants, they develop innovative staffing programs that effectively utilizes people, process, and technology to help manage contract labor.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_button dimension=”outline” corner_style=”rounded” size=”large” letter_spacing=”2″ url=”https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hanys-solutions-partners-with-adaptive-workforce-solutions-to-reduce-the-cost-of-contract-labor-301095583.html?tc=eml_cleartime” target=”_blank” align=”center” outline_skin=”custom” outline_active_color=”#20c4f4″ outline_active_text_color=”#195682″ outline_hover_bg_color=”#20c4f4″ outline_hover_color=”#195682″]PR Newswire Report[/mk_button][vc_empty_space height=”60px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1595350299633{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]

Reduce Contract Labor Costs and
Take Control of Your Workforce Today

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BDelricco@adaptivewfs.com
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Cutting Through the Chaos

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1591396202766{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Many lessons were learned during the COVID-19 battle but one stands out among healthcare leaders–the importance of constant communication and streamlined processes and procedures. The old way worked but when put to the test, it was clear that improvements needed to be made before another crisis came along. One particular process took front and center, staffing. Finding staff fast was haphazard and inconsistent. Bill rates were not managed and hospitals were gouged as the needs became more dire. What can be done differently in the new constant state of readiness?

Fortunately, there are better ways for hospital leaders to procure labor and stay focused on patients, their staff, and day to day business. Enter the Workforce Management Solution. These solutions are tailored to the individual facility’s challenges and goals and the solution is vendor-funded so there is no cost to the hospital. A key service offered by Workforce Management Solution consultants is called a Managed Service Program.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1591394475545{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]

The benefits of a Centralized Workforce Solution

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What is a Managed Service Program (MSP)?

An MSP is a centralized people and process solution that helps source and manage the short-term staffing needs of a facility. The MSP model can be a cost-effective tool for hospitals facing staffing shortages, crisis staffing fluctuations, filling vacation holes, retirements, or coverage during an EMR conversion.

An MSP will help your facility:

•  Recruit and onboard quality candidates
•  Improve fill, contract completion and extension rates
•  Consolidate contracts into one master agreement
•  Eliminate inflated bill rates
•  Streamline and simplify inefficient workforce processes
•  Increase vendor visibility
•  Reduce staff turnover and overtime hours
•  Leverage data to drive the planning process

These advantages can add up to 5%-8% in savings of time and money and provide a streamlined people, process and technology solution for managing every aspect of contract labor.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_columns=”true” attached=”true”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_empty_space height=”80px”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1591376016365{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]

A Business Case for Change

 

Most hospitals have no formal process for finding, hiring, credentialing, and onboarding contract labor. Often the process is handled differently from unit to unit and department to department. Using this method causes confusion, errors, multiple department cross over, high administrative cost and rogue spending.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_empty_space height=”80px”][vc_single_image image=”8622″ img_size=”400×329″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_columns=”true” attached=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1591397016934{background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.05) !important;*background-color: rgb(0,0,0) !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1591397167426{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 10px !important;}”]

Cutting Through the Chaos

 

An MSP can create increased efficiency by being the single point of contact for client and vendor. It will automate the process, use a consistent compliance process, lower costs through greater resources, negotiate competitive rates to promote true vendor competition, manage risk, consolidate billing, provide one invoice and one payment, and offer real-time reports to give visibility into every aspect of the contract hiring process including vendor performance.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_single_image image=”8623″ img_size=”400×329″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_columns=”true” attached=”true”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_single_image image=”8625″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1591377270815{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]

Is Your Facility Ready?

 

Managing healthcare staffing is complicated, time-consuming, and overwhelming. Finding the right talent at the right time, staying compliant, finding cost-effective solutions, and dealing with the challenges of contract management takes healthcare leaders away from the business of patient care. Adaptive Workforce Solutions understands that each workforce solution should be designed to solve the individual needs of each hospital and healthcare system. We act as honest brokers who advocate for hospitals in every aspect of contract labor management.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1591381692560{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Our team develops customized Workforce Management Solutions that operate to reduce your overall contract labor spend by combining the best people, process, and technology to create a centralized and efficient contract labor management system. We advocate for your hospital and take on all the heavy lifting of contract labor management.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1591389495174{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]

Take Control of Your Workforce Today
with Adaptive Workforce Solutions

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Nurse Staffing Ratio, Bill SB277

Nurse Leaders in California have enough challenges when it comes to staffing. For years they have struggled with nursing shortages, rising cost of labor, high-turnover, threat of union strikes and obtaining quality supplemental staff to meet erratic staffing levels at reasonable rates. Meeting staffing ratio requirements is a big concern for all healthcare facilities in California and there is much that goes into ensuring staffing requirements are appropriately met.

According to the bill, penalties collected by the department are deposited into the Internal Departmental Quality Improvement Account, to be expended, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for internal quality improvement activities in the Licensing and Certification Program.  According to many of our nurse travel staffing resources, it currently takes an average of three months or more for an out of state nurse to obtain a temporary RN license through the CA Board of Nursing (BON). This is a considerable improvement over years prior, but still ties the hands of Nurse Leaders in obtaining temporary nursing resources in a timely manner.

I think we all can agree appropriate staffing ratios result in better patient care, and if a facility is consistently negligent on meeting these requirements then penalties are already in place. However, this legislation will likely result in driving up labor costs and putting hospitals in a compromised position of having to choose a less qualified nurse in order to avoid additional penalties associated with this bill. We all support the efforts of nurses and healthcare facilities in ensuring timely and quality care of staff however, SB277 creates an unnecessary, duplicative penalty system for hospitals in California and does not solve the problem of ensuring adequate staffing levels are consistently met.

AdaptiveWFS supports the efforts of CHA and ACNL in voting down Nurse Staffing Ratio SB277 Bill.

 

Here is how you can make a difference:

ACNL has received this urgent notice from CHA regarding the Nurse Staffing Ratio Bill, SB227.

Action needed:	CHA urges hospital executives to send a letter asking Governor Newsom to veto Senate Bill (SB) 227 (Leyva, D-Chino), which would create an unreasonable and duplicative penalty system for hospitals that do not meet nurse staffing ratios. CHA has developed a template letter for members’ use. To find contact information for your representative, visit http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/.

Important facts regarding Nurse Staffing Ratio, SB277

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB227

 

• Existing law requires the department to promulgate regulations establishing criteria to assess an administrative penalty against a general acute care hospital, acute psychiatric hospital, or special hospital for a deficiency constituting an immediate jeopardy violation and a violation of the rules and regulations applicable to these types of hospitals that do not constitute an immediate jeopardy. Existing law requires certain penalties collected by the department to be deposited into the Internal Departmental Quality Improvement Account, to be expended, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for internal quality improvement activities in the Licensing and Certification Program.

• This bill would require the department to assess specified administrative penalties for a violation of the nurse-to-patient ratios and staff assignment regulations described above. The bill would exempt from those administrative penalties a general acute care hospital that demonstrates to the satisfaction of the department that, among other things, prompt efforts were made to maintain required staffing levels, as specified.

• Administrative penalty against a licensee of a health facility for a deficiency constituting an immediate jeopardy violation has a maximum penalty of seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for the first administrative penalty, up to one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the second subsequent administrative penalty, and up to one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($125,000) for the third and every subsequent violation.

• SB277 Bill is Endorsed by: https://www.lakeconews.com/index.php/news/health/61134-leyva-bill-improving-hospital-patient-safety-passes-senate

The measure is co-sponsored by SEIU California, SEIU Local 121RN and United Nurses Associations of California / Union of Health Care Professionals (UNAC / UHCP) and supported by the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, California Labor Federation, California Nurses Association / National Nurses United, California Professional Firefighters, California School Employees Association, California School Nurses Organization, California Teamsters Public Affairs Council, Congress of California Seniors, Consumer Attorneys of California, Engineers and Scientists of California / Local 20, International Longshore and Warehouse Union / Local 13 and San Francisco AIDS Foundation.

 

Additional information and articles about Nurse Staffing Ratio Bill SB 277

1. http://www.seiu121rn.org/2019/05/09/press-release-california-senate-passes-sb-227-leyva-designed-to-remedy-hospitals-staffing-crisis/
2. https://www.votervoice.net/mobile/GOODGOVCANV/Campaigns/67769/Respond
3. https://www.lakeconews.com/index.php/news/health/61134-leyva-bill-improving-hospital-patient-safety-passes-senate

 

AdaptiveWFS develops innovative and technical workforce management programs that can meet the demands of today’s staffing challenges.

Find out how the Adaptive Advantage can benefit your facility with a free consultation.

 

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