As healthcare delivery transforms to prioritize value-based care, preventative health, and integrated coordination, care models keep evolving. Meeting staffing challenges amidst the uncertainty requires flexible workforce solutions. This is where temporary staffing shines.
Here are some of the major ways temporary clinical talent helps health systems adapt workforce needs to emerging care models:
Key Areas for Temporary Staffing in Healthcare:
1. Hospital at Home Programs
Hospital-level care delivered in a patient’s residence surged during the pandemic. But scaling these programs requires expanding nurse, therapist and physician staff who can treat patients in improvised home environments. Temporary staff offer crucial support ramping programs up or down.
2. Retail and Mobile Health Clinics
Hospital-level care delivered in a patient’s residence surged during the pandemic. But scaling these programs requires expanding nurse, therapist and physician staff who can treat patients in improvised home environments. Temporary staff offer crucial support ramping programs up or down.
3. Telehealth Expansion
Virtual care isn’t hampered by geographic barriers but does require teams specially trained for remote diagnosis, treatment and patient education. Temporary telehealth providers scale programs rapidly while permanent hires train up.
4. Population Health Management
Coordinating whole person care across the care continuum leans on providers, care coordinators and health coaches with a knack for engagement, education and relationship-building. Temporary CMs and RNs fit the bill.
The bottom line? Temporary clinical talent adds workforce elasticity so care innovation isn’t hampered. With tight talent markets, exploring flexible staffing keeps evolving models on track.
Nimble Responses to Community Needs
Temporary clinical staff also provide invaluable workforce flexibility for health systems seeking to directly address evolving community health needs through targeted care initiatives and access expansions.
As population health analytics expose areas of care disparity, holes in care coordination, or the need for very specialized services, temporary staffing delivers multiple benefits:
- Launch or expand niche community programs faster without delays hiring permanent workforce
- Fluidly transition nurses, advanced practice clinicians and physicians into and out of local or mobile services
- Modify care models over time in response to variable community utilization patterns
- Prevent overstaffing or need to transfer/terminate permanent staff later.
Having an on-demand source of highly qualified clinicians and specialists enables health networks to nimbly activate, adapt and optimize targeted community care programs week-to-week for maximum impact.
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