Smartlinx Staffing Marketplace Mobilizes Industry’s Top Workforce Providers to Help Solve Nurse Shortages

By PR Newswire On Apr 20, 2023

Smartlinx, a leading provider of cloud-based workforce management solutions for the long-term care and senior living industries, announced they have integrated their first to market Staffing Marketplace platform with the industry’s leading workforce providers, Gale and ShiftMed. Now clients have more flexibility and choice to fill shifts when they need it most, and greater visibility and control over their contingent labor costs.

A part of Smartlinx Workforce Management Platform, the Marketplace connects healthcare organizations to on-demand workforce providers across the U.S. The Smartlinx platform combined with Staffing Marketplace provides clients real-time visibility into a facility’s entire staffing ecosystem, in one place, so organizations can make better business decisions around their workforce. It offers clients the ability to both reduce nurse shortages on-demand, and better predict, plan, schedule and control staff.

According to a recent survey by American Healthcare Association (AHCA)*, 84% of nursing homes face moderate to high levels of staffing shortages and 45% of nursing homes say their overall workforce situation has gotten worse since 2022. In addition, 96% of nursing homes are experiencing difficulty hiring staff and more than half of nursing homes are limiting new admissions due to staffing shortages. With Staffing Marketplace, Smartlinx is working to help clients solve these staffing shortages through technology.

“Our clients continue to be plagued by the industry’s nurse staffing shortages. By adding leading workforce providers, Gale and ShiftMed, into our Staffing Marketplace, we’ve made it easier for our clients to find quality staff to help reduce nurse shortages,” said Marina Aslanyan, CEO, Smartlinx. “These new partnerships are an example of our continued commitment to the long-term care and senior living industry, using technology to help clients solve their top workforce challenges today and into the future.”

The Marketplace is open by design to offer clients more staffing choices. Smartlinx is committed to strengthening the Marketplace with more partners to help clients fill shifts faster and save money on operational inefficiencies.

The Marketplace offers a seamless, API-driven integration with on-demand workforce providers, which gives facilities the ability to access supplemental nurses within the Smartlinx platform. Clients can see both full-time and supplemental staff availability in one platform, so they can fill shifts faster and better predict costs. In addition, direct care hours are now in one system, which helps make PBJ compliance reporting easier and more accurate. It also helps eliminate the manual tracking of nurses for labor management and invoice reconciliation.

“With the nursing shortage persisting, healthcare facilities are continuing to report issues with filling open shifts. Through ShiftMed’s integration with Smartlinx, it is now easier than ever for these facilities to reach optimal staffing levels without the time-consuming process of manual employee onboarding,” said Todd Walrath, CEO of ShiftMed. “Not only will facilities now have access to ShiftMed’s pool of on-demand healthcare professionals, employee’s data with digital credentials will be automatically transferred into the Smartlinx platform for fast and simple employee management.”

“Gale Healthcare is excited about this new technology partnership with Smartlinx to help healthcare communities meet their workforce management challenges,” said Tony Braswell, President and Founder. “As a leading tech-enabled provider of temporary nursing staff, our national network of clinicians will be available to an even larger network of healthcare providers, so more people get the care they deserve.”

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