In the dynamic landscape of healthcare, meeting staffing needs efficiently and effectively is crucial. Our VMS solution supports streamlined float pool management to seamlessly address both internal and external staffing requirements, ensuring optimal patient care and significant cost savings.

An optimized float pool helps reduce the time and resources spent on filling vacancies, meaning you have a ready supply of skilled professionals to cover shifts, minimizing disruptions and maintaining continuity of care.

Key b4health Float Pool Benefits

• Engage with and connect to staff online using personalized settings, filters, and notifications.
• Fill vacancies by priority, preference, or skills matching.
• Improve fill rates and other important metrics with better utilization of existing PRN staffing resources.
• Share unfilled needs automatically with external staff.
• Keep electronic staff profiles to ensure compliance in every shift worked with real-time profile auditing.
• Report on fill rates, cancellations, and spend by position type, facility, unit, and many other filters.

Client Success Story: Automation and Seamless Integrations Support the Internal Agency

Prior to the pandemic, the internal agency of a multi-location East Coast Academic Medical System, began the transformation from an external Managed Service Program (MSP) to a self-managed solution with the goals of establishing a float pool as well as a centralized way to manage both internal and external staff from a single platform.

The organization leveraged b4health’s vendor and float pool management solution to automate unique workflows and integrate with internal technologies including multiple timekeeping, ATS, ERP, accounting, and educational systems, resulting in:

• 20% estimated savings on labor spend
• 1,500+ job titles housed on b4health platform
• 17,000 open per diem shift needs filled on average per month
• 700+ internal agency members managed
• 80+ clinical and non-clinical staffing suppliers managed

Client Success Story: Seamless Internal Agency Management and Sustained Cost Savings

In 2022, a private, university-based regional health system in Maryland faced challenges efficiently managing its internal labor, long term assignments, and per diem shifts as its operational costs increased post-pandemic.

Internal agency staff are deployed on short-term assignments (13 weeks or less) like an external traveler or contractor, only taking assignments within a single health system.

The team at b4health implemented a customized vendor neutral VMS solution for clinical and non-clinical workforce management, integrated with the b4health self-serve mobile application for all per diem and LTA assignment requests, yielding:

• 750 Long Term Assignments Filled Over the Last 12 Months
• 1,000 Per Diem Shifts Filled in the Last 30 Days
• 1,600+ Internal Float and Internal Agency Providers Managed Seamlessly