ShiftWise Passes 350-Customers: Extends Market Lead in Healthcare Staffing
ShiftWis Healthcare Staffings Contingent Workforce Management Leader Closes Banner Year
PORTLAND, Ore., February 21—ShiftWise,
the nation's leading provider of online healthcare staffing management
services, closed the 2006 calendar year with impressive customer
growth, bringing the total number of healthcare facilities using the
company's service to more than 350 nationwide. In 2006, ShiftWise led
the charge to simplify supplemental staffing management and procurement
processes, and reduce costs for hospitals struggling with the ongoing
national shortage of healthcare professionals. The company's efforts
resulted in record adoption of its services. "Record customer growth and 100% customer satisfaction has placed ShiftWise as the industry standard for online supplemental staffing management in 2006," said Steve Schwartz, CEO ShiftWise. "You know you're absolutely meeting the needs of the marketplace when you achieve renewal rates of 100%. We take great pride in knowing that healthcare facilities using ShiftWise have reported increased efficiencies and decreased expenditures, which then allows them to focus their resources on their top priority, outstanding patient care. We look forward to working with healthcare facilities nationwide to achieve even greater success in 2007."
ShiftWise's Web-based automated staffing management solution offers an unmatched suite of services currently in use by hundreds of hospitals and staffing companies nationwide. With ShiftWise, hospital clients can effortlessly manage resources from external staffing companies via the Web with only a few clicks of a mouse. Administrative costs are decreased through streamlined order management and improved record keeping. ShiftWise's technology reduces the complexity of managing multiple vendors, allowing the staffing and credentialing processes to be managed more effectively and foster quality control.
"ShiftWise has made our agency staffing process much easier and has helped us put additional controls in place," said Dan Tippett, director, Operating Efficiency for The Ohio State University Medical Center. "Since adopting the ShiftWise service, we have reduced our agency costs significantly. Finally, we have improved control of our agency staffing process, costs and clinical requirements."
ShiftWise also enjoyed a record amount of awareness in 2006 fueled by coverage in business, healthcare, staffing-industry media. Leading publications, including Investor's Business Daily, Dow Jones VentureWire, American Venture, Healthcare IT News and SI Review, featured positive coverage of ShiftWise, as well as customer profiles illustrating the benefits of adopting the company's service.
Strong Staffing Industry Partnerships
Through its new ShiftWise Affiliate Vendor (SAV) Program, ShiftWise established relationships with leading staffing agencies and enabled them to provide online supplemental staffing management solutions to their hospital customers. Participating agencies received 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. Since its debut in June, the program added leading staffing providers, including Cross Country Staffing, InteliStaf Healthcare, HRN Services, Aedon Staffing and MedTrust, as well as MedAssets Supply Chain Systems, one of the nation's largest healthcare group purchasing organizations.
New Corporate Headquarters and Enhanced Regional Service
ShiftWise also finished the year with the opening of new corporate headquarters. Last month, the company relocated its operations from Lake Oswego, Ore., to expanded facilities in Portland in response to the rapid growth of sales and employees it has experienced over the past year. The new ShiftWise headquarters is located at 2501 SW 1st Ave., Portland, Ore. 97201.
In addition, ShiftWise expanded its regional sales and customer services capabilities with new additions to its staff in the Chicago metropolitan area. As demand for its services continues to grow, ShiftWise plans to continue to deploy its staff in major markets throughout the United States to maintain the high level of 24x7 service that its customers have come to expect.
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 visitwww.shiftwise.net.
