Travel Nursing (Part 2): The Concept of Efficiency

In a prior post, we discussed the phenomena of nurses swapping cities simultaneously to work for 13 weeks, then returning to their respective cities. It doesn’t occur to the requesting healthcare facilities, the source of all job orders, that at the same time they are pulling travel nurses from other parts of the country, hospitals […]

Staffing Industry Giants Hit the Courts (Again): AMN and AYA Case

Aya Healthcare Statement Regarding AMN’s Practices and Recent Court Ruling SAN DIEGO, June 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Aya Healthcare has been successful in preventing AMN Healthcare from using unlawful contractual restraints to limit employee mobility in the travel nurse industry. AMN originally sued Aya and our employees in an attempt to prevent AMN employees from joining Aya. AMN’s […]

An Agency Standpoint on the Front Lines of COVID-19

This Gilbert staffing agency gets nurses and doctors to the front lines of the COVID-19 battle. In a typical week at AB Staffing Solutions, the Gilbert firm that places travel nurses and physicians in clinics and hospitals across the country, the company would find temporary professional homes for an average of 250 nurses and 90 […]

Nurse Staffing: Why today is different than in the “Great Recession”

What’s the current status of nurse staffing? IT’S A CENSUS YEAR FOR THE US. As hospitals stretch to meet the growing demand for census requirements, it is instructive to take a long-term view of the impact on the healthcare-staffing segment of the industry. History is usually helpful in predictive analysis. An example of this is […]

Medicare and Medicaid Allows Doctors to Practice Across State Lines

One of the biggest health IT related news items to come out was the announcement by Vice President Mike Pence that HHS was issuing a regulation to permit doctors to practice across state lines.  State Medical Licensure is something that has baffled many of us that have worked in healthcare.  I’m sure there’s some historical […]