Portland, ORE., June 19, 2006- ShiftWise, the nation's leading provider of online healthcare staffing management services, today announced that it has created the ShiftWise Affiliate Vendor (SAV) program to enable staffing agencies to provide online supplemental staffing management solutions to their hospital customers. Through the SAV program, staffing agencies can now partner with ShiftWise to provide the ShiftWise service, which is the supplemental staffing management solution of choice for hundreds of hospitals nationwide. Participating agencies receive all of the benefits of providing the industry-standard supplemental staffing management service to their customers while enjoying significantly reduced costs for healthcare staff booked through the ShiftWise service.
"We expect the ShiftWise service will enhance Cross Country's healthcare staffing capabilities as we incorporate this technology into our VMS program over time, allowing us to improve customer satisfaction by reducing the hospital's time to fill orders, streamlining the invoicing and financial reporting process, and improving the overall account management experience," said Jonathan W. Ward, President of Cross Country Staffing. "As healthcare facilities nationwide are struggling to maintain optimum nurse-to-patient ratios during a deepening nursing shortage, Cross Country prides itself on offering tools like the ShiftWise solution to help our hospital clients improve their staffing efficiency and quality while reducing overall costs."
Through the new SAV program, staffing agencies can now offer hospitals an unmatched suite of services through ShiftWise's Web-based solution. With ShiftWise, hospital clients can effortlessly manage their internal staffs and order resources from external staffing companies over the Web and with only a few clicks of a mouse. No longer do healthcare employers have to fear the administrative burden of the staffing process - they can now manage it online with ease, from anywhere, at any time.
"ShiftWise has created a service that hundreds of hospitals have embraced for simplifying their supplemental staffing processes," said Steve Schwartz, CEO of ShiftWise. "By providing staffing agencies with the ability to offer the ShiftWise service to hospitals and enjoy reduced costs for staff booked through the system, we are giving them the opportunity to increase both customer satisfaction and cost savings. The ShiftWise Affiliate Vendor program offers significant benefits for ShiftWise, its staffing agency partners and the hospitals they serve, making it a win-win-win opportunity for all parties involved."
About ShiftWise
Founded by healthcare staffing professionals, ShiftWise delivers a more efficient way for hospitals and other healthcare providers to quickly and efficiently find and book supplemental healthcare workers. The Web-based ShiftWise service provides hospitals with an unprecedented level of control over their staffing processes, consolidating staff search, booking, billing and record-keeping into a single easy-to-use interface. Based in Portland, ORE., ShiftWise provides automated staffing management technology to hundreds of healthcare organizations and multiple state hospital associations nationwide. To learn more about ShiftWise, call 866-399-2220 or visit www.shiftwise.net.