Medical facilities such as critical access hospitals, urgent cares, trauma centers, and other traditional facilities, can see influxes in patient volume for any number of reasons, including pandemics/endemics, seasonal changes (winter skiing/ice fishing/snowmobile accidents), or due to changes in staffing needs due to expansion of services, leaves, or burnout. In all of these situations, the addition of travel allied clinicians to the staff can help fill the gaps in coverage, adding expertise and skills needed to treat patients.
Barton Healthcare Staffing provides these solutions through sourcing and recommending experienced healthcare professionals in a variety of fields, allowing clients to focus on their day-to-day while Barton handles the staffing to help keep the medical facility operating efficiently.
The Need for Allied Staffing Solutions
Allied staffing solutions involve providing healthcare facilities with healthcare providers that can travel across different states to cater to a specific need at a specific facility. Working with an allied health staffing agency like Barton Healthcare Staffing gives clients access to temporary healthcare providers who are licensed to practice in their specific state, expanding their pool of potential clinicians beyond the drivable radius of their facility.
There is an increasing demand for all allied health clinicians, and this need will only continue to grow. For example, in the year 2030, it is estimated that there will be a 19% increase in the demand for pharmacists in the United States.
Medical facilities (of all sizes), across the United States can benefit from staffing with travel allied health professionals. Additional support from travel clinicians can:
- Increase Patient Satisfaction: With access to additional specialized healthcare clinicians on the team, patients are able to receive close attention to their particular health concerns. It allows extra time for patients to have in-depth conversations, receive additional care, and ask questions of healthcare professionals from a wide range of health fields.
- Increase Efficiency and Effectiveness: It may not be widely understood that respiratory therapists, ultrasound techs, lab techs, social workers, occupational therapist, physical therapists, and technicians running MRIs, mammograms, and other machinery are all considered allied health professionals or clinicians. Without these specialists, patient wait times increase, care is halted, and patient care decreases. Staffing with temporary allied staff is a solution to improve the efficiency of most facilities.
- Reduce Costs and Increase Revenue: When a facility needs to fill gaps in coverage, it can be beneficial to the bottom line to keep the facility operating at full capacity even with the additional cost of temporary staff. The additional temporary staff offered by Barton Healthcare Staffing allows:
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- Permanent clinicians to take time off, reducing burnout and turnover saving time (and money) on hiring and training new perm staff.
- Emergency facilities to offer offer care to patients who need services from the lab, pharmacy, respiratory therapy , and/or any imaging/technology departments.
- Long term care facilities/departments to offer imaging services, OT, PT, Social Workers, and other continued care.
- Facilities to expand/offer new services increasing the potential or increased revenue
How Can Barton Healthcare Staffing Help Your Facility?
Barton Healthcare Staffing is a national leader in allied health staffing solutions. The Barton team understands that the majority of healthcare facilities cannot effectively operate without the availability of pharmacists, lab techs, imaging technicians, respiratory therapists, physical therapists, and occupational therapists. To overcome this hurdle, Barton’s recruiters work to proactively engage with clinicians specializing in these focus areas who are available to travel to facilities for temporary assignments.
The benefits of allied staffing solutions for clinicians and medical facilities cannot be overestimated. Barton Healthcare Staffing provides a solid solution for hospitals, imaging centers, rehabilitation centers, clinics, urgent care facilities, schools, behavioral health facilities, summer camps, and dozens of other specialized facilities.
Learn more about Barton Healthcare Staffing’s clinicians. Speak to one of our account executives and see how our travel allied health solutions can enhance productivity and efficiency in your medical facility.
