Aedon Staffing Joins ShiftWise Affiliate Vendor Program

Healthcare Staffing Leader Selects ShiftWise Industry Leading Staffing Management System

Portland, Ore., December 11, 2006 — ShiftWise, the nation’s leading provider of online healthcare staffing management services, today announced that it has formed a new licensing and co-marketing relationship with Aedon Staffing, a leading provider of travel, local contract, temp-to-perm and permanent placement healthcare services across the country. As a ShiftWise Affiliate Vendor (SAV), Aedon Staffing will now have the ability to provide the ShiftWise Web-based staffing management service as part of an overall vendor management offering for its healthcare customers.

Aedon Staffing will also use the ShiftWise service for its own supplemental staffing management and the services it provides to nursing home and therapy clients including Golden LivingCenters, Beverly LivingCenters, Aegis Therapies, and AseraCare Hospice. Combined, these clients have 34,000 employees among 342 skilled nursing facilities, 18 assisted living centers and 67 hospice and home health centers.

“Through our partnership with ShiftWise, Aedon Staffing is able to easily achieve a two-fold goal by streamlining and simplifying the supplemental staffing process internally and providing our external healthcare customers with an industry leading solution for supplemental staffing management,” said Cherié A. Tarif, BA, CTS, Vice President of Aedon Staffing. “We look forward to experiencing the increased staffing efficiency that the ShiftWise solution provides, as well as passing that benefit on to our external healthcare customers.”

ShiftWise’s Web-based automated staffing management solution offers an unmatched suite of services currently in use by hundreds of hospitals nationwide. With ShiftWise, hospital clients can effortlessly manage resources from external staffing companies like Aedon Staffing over 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, enabling clients and healthcare professionals to focus on patient care. 

“Aedon Staffing is an industry-leading source of qualified healthcare professionals for the nation’s premier healthcare providers and the company recognizes the staffing challenges facilities face every day,” said Steve Schwartz, CEO of ShiftWise. “ShiftWise is honored to help Aedon Staffing streamline supplemental staffing processes for the company and its external customers through our supplemental staffing management service.”

About Aedon Staffing
Aedon Staffing (www.aedonstaffing.com) is a healthcare staffing company specializing in the placement of nurses, therapists, therapy assistants, nursing home administrators and allied healthcare positions in both acute care and skilled nursing facilities. Aedon Staffing’s team of staffing managers brings the strength of years of industry experience to serve its customers. They understand the critical nature of staffing shortages that healthcare facilities face every day, and the need for each healthcare professional to find the right fit — the right location, the right pay, and the right work environment. Each staffing opportunity is managed with both a sense of urgency and a focus on quality. Aedon Staffing offers the right mix of flexibility and stability to meet the needs of an ever-changing healthcare environment.

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 visit www.shiftwise.net.