The healthcare workforce represents one of hospitals’ biggest costs and affects every aspect of the organization, from the quality of patient care to the hospital’s bottom line. With such high stakes amid the transition to value-based care, leaders must ramp up recruiting and retention strategies while mitigating the effects of the nationwide staffing shortage.
At AMN Healthcare 2016 Workforce Summit in San Diego, Scott Becker, publisher of Becker’s Hospital Review, moderated a panel discussion with four health system finance executives on the top staffing challenges they are seeing in their organizations.
Panelists included Gary Raju, CFO of St. Louis-based Mercy Health System of Oklahoma; Chip Neuman, CFO of Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno, Calif.; and Brian Scott, CFO, chief administrative officer and treasurer of AMN Healthcare.
Here are three of the most interesting takeaways from the panel.
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