Our HealthTrust offices across the country donated food to local charities, such as the United Way of Broward County and Irving Cares, to make sure people in the community would have Thanksgiving dinner. Our Dallas office alone collected more than 500 pounds of food and living essentials to help those in need for the holiday! We would like to thank all of our HealthTrust team members for their generosity.

HealthTrust team members helped beautify Hollywood Beach just in time for Thanksgiving weekend visitors! Ten volunteers from our corporate office in South Florida picked up litter along the shore, filling nearly a dozen garbage bags in the process. We thank each of our beach clean-up volunteers for giving back to our coastal community. 

As we near the end of National Apprenticeship Week, we'd like to take a moment to shift the focus to our StaRN learners and clinical instructors. Thank you for all of the important time and energy you put forth to make our program such a tremendous success. 

As we continue our National Apprenticeship Week celebration, we wanted to highlight the profound effect that StaRN - or Specialty Training Apprenticeship for Registered Nurses - has had on the healthcare and staffing communities. Most recently, the program was presented with the Elevate Award by the American Staffing Association, which recognizes the most innovative and effective work-based learning programs designed specifically for temporary and contract employees. 

Congratulations to Britnee Gillum on earning a DAISY Award! Britnee is a travel nurse at Swedish Medical Center in Denver, Colorado, who is known for offering her undivided attention and individualized care to each patient she encounters:  

This National Apprenticeship Week, we would like to recognize all of the StaRN learners and graduates for their commitment to providing quality patient care, as well as the clinical instructors who guided them along the way. StaRN, short for Specialty Training Apprenticeship for Registered Nurses, began as an opportunity to help meet the demand for specialty nurses in fields such as medical/surgical, telemetry, and critical care.

In observation of Veterans Day, we honor the 22+ million men and women who have served in the United States military, especially the many among us now working as corporate and clinical employees within the HealthTrust Workforce Solutions family. These courageous individuals put their lives in harm's way to protect our country and ensure the freedoms that Americans embrace each and every day. 

In an environment where team-based patient care is the new norm, positive working relationships are more crucial to a hospital or medical group’s success than ever before.

Focusing on clear communication, sharing of patient information, care coordination, collaboration among care team members and a well-organized plan of care—both inside and outside the hospital—helps patients get better fast and stay well. To do so, the relationships between care team members must be equally as healthy. 

On Tuesday, November 6, HWS Vice President of Professional Development John Ruffini will speak on a panel called "M&A, Non-Financial Matters After the Deal" at the Staffing Industry Analyst Healthcare Staffing Summit in Denver, Colorado.

While companies merge for a variety of reasons, the amount of time invested in strategy, due diligence, financial matters and C-Suite implications often dominate the deal. This can cause employees to feel confused, distracted and even fearful of what's ahead. This panel of experts will speak from experience regarding the good, the bad, and the ugly of post-merger times. 

On Tuesday, November 6, HWS President & CEO Brendan Courtney will join a panel of fellow healthcare staffing industry executives at the Staffing Industry Analyst Healthcare Staffing Summit in Denver, Colorado to discuss “Beating the Skills Mismatch: Innovative Methods for Supplying Talent.” 

While skill shortages are nothing new in healthcare, the length of the current economic expansion, the heightened requirements demanded in job requisitions and demographic shifts have combined to create a perfect storm of recruiting difficulty. This session will examine a range of real life case studies that illustrate how some staffing firms are winning the war for talent. The panelists will discuss how they are re-inventing marketing and recruiting processes, as well as launching programs to engage students, new graduates and other pools of talent.