Unlock Nursing Operational Success with Flexible Staffing

Unlock Nursing Operational Success with Flexible Staffing

DATE: Tuesday, April 23, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. CT

Learn how on-demand nursing revolutionizes staffing strategies by addressing fluctuating needs, enhancing nurse satisfaction, and improving retention. Gain insights from industry leaders like SSM Health and Presbyterian Healthcare Services on cost-effectiveness, flexibility, and better patient outcomes. Discover implementation strategies for integrating on-demand nursing seamlessly, optimizing technology, and maintaining a stable core nursing team.

• Explore forward-thinking strategies for addressing nursing shortages through on-demand staffing solutions.
• Gain insights from case studies on how SSM Health and Presbyterian Healthcare Services achieved financial and operational success by utilizing an on-demand nursing platform.
• Acquire key takeaways for nurse leaders to deploy successful on-demand staffing solutions in their organizations.
• How SSM Health reduced their reliance on travel and agency, grew their internal and external float pools, increased retention and satisfaction, and self-reported $85M in savings in FY2022.
• Why Presbyterian Healthcare Services decided to implement on-demand nurses due to staffing shortages, and how they onboarded 250 external float pool nurses in under six months. 
   

Presenters

Larry Adams, RN, MSN, MBA, Nurse Executive, ShiftMed

Larry Adams, RN, MSN, MBA brings unparalleled expertise in nursing and healthcare staffing ranging from his time as a travel nurse to his leadership role as former Division Vice President of Crisis Staffing and Labor Disruption at AMN Healthcare. Larry continues to revolutionize the industry with innovative solutions in his current role as Chief Nurse Executive at ShiftMed, the on-demand healthcare workforce platform trusted by health systems nationwide.

Jessica Potts, DNP, RN, NE-BC, System Senior Director of Strategic Workforce Operations, SSM Health

Dr. Jessica Potts, DNP, RN, NE-BC is a top-performing nurse and healthcare leader with proven success initiating, developing, and implementing improvement methods that enhance efficiencies and drive outcomes. As the System Senior Director of Strategic Workforce Operations at SSM Health, she leads the team responsible for the development and operational administration of flexible staffing strategies that align with the organization’s goals.  

Dr. Potts has developed flexible employment options for nurses, engineered $10 million or more in savings with on-demand workforce partnerships, and successfully negotiated and operationalized reduced agency rates with external firms leading to significant savings for SSM Health – saving $130 million over a span of 14 months. 

Jay Sundheimer, RN, CNO, Presbyterian Healthcare Services

Jay Sundheimer has served the last 5 years as the Chief Nursing Executive for Presbyterian Rust Medical Center in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. Throughout his career as a Critical Care Director, Assistant Chief Nurse and Chief Nurse, he has excelled in promoting a healthy work environment, improving clinical outcomes, and inspiring leaders. Recent post-pandemic achievements include cutting nursing turnover in half while expanding capacity and improving hospital efficiencies, all while reducing agency nursing from more than 80 to 1 in a year.