The October 2018 Jobs Report delivered a stronger-than-expected display of economic growth, adding 250,000 new jobs last month. The healthcare sector contributed to the robust job creation, accounting for 35,600 of the jobs created and the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.7%. The report also revealed that wages climbed 3.1% in the past 12 months, the fastest pace in 9 years.

HealthTrust Workforce Solutions is committed to creating an environment that promotes Workplace Wellness. Each month the HWS Employee Advisory Group hosts fitness challenges with weekly check-ins. Fitness challenges have included high planking, wall sitting and Feiffer scissoring, to name a few. The winners are determined by the best performance and greatest progress.

This Halloween, HealthTrust's Employee Advisory Group hosted contests for the best individual and group costumes. Here are our team members who won the top prizes! 

We kicked off our annual campaign in support of the United Way of Broward County! Representatives from the United Way stopped by our South Florida corporate headquarters to share how every dollar donated impacts our local community. 

In honor of the 3.1 million women in the U.S. who are living with or have a history of breast cancer, HealthTrust team members showed their support by wearing pink, hosting bake sales, sharing statistics and resources, wearing ribbons, and more throughout the month of October. We would like to thank all of our team members who took part in this worthy cause.

Congratulations to our Houston office for winning the Summer Sizzle recruitment contest! The Houston team won the contest by putting the most new HWS nurses to work this summer. When the temperatures rose in Texas, HWS nurses in the Houston area also worked more on average than any other region in the country. As part of their prize, the team was treated to a summer barbecue feast.

When Hurricane Michael made landfall in Florida, HealthTrust was there to help. HealthTrust Workforce Solutions deployed more than 140 clinicians so far to seven HCA Healthcare facilities to join their disaster relief efforts. This involved not only helping facilities that were directly impacted in the Florida panhandle, but also facilities in central Florida that received patients who were evacuated from other hospitals. We would like to thank everyone who took the time to help the people affected by this devastating storm.

We’re looking to hire Staffing Recruiters for our regional offices! If you enjoy making meaningful connections and have a strong background in sales, learn more about our Staffing Recruiter career opportunities.

We would like to congratulate our Shared Services Recruitment team on already exceeding their year-end goal! Shared Services Recruitment is responsible for sourcing and submitting candidates to our Parallon affiliate to fill non-clinical positions within HCA Healthcare facilities or other Parallon locations. The Shared Services Department is currently made up of three recruiters: Regional Recruiter Daylena Barrios, Associate Recruiter Stephanie Celis, and Associate Recruiter Richard Polanco.

With the school year in full swing across the country, we wanted to know: What do kids think we do at work all day? Our HealthTrust team members asked their children, and here’s what they said!