Travel nurses are growing in popularity, with a 19 percent increase in demand expected by 2022. HealthTrust Workforce Solutions’ Vice President of Travel, Tim Bollinger, weighs in on three reasons why healthcare facilities should consider utilizing the talents of travel nurses.  

Travel recruiter Ashley Parker is our next corporate HealthTrust Hero! Ashley joined our team three years ago in our sourcing department and moved to our travel division less than a year later.   

“I truly enjoy coming to work every day,” Ashley says with a smile. “I love getting to know new people and that no two days are the same.”

We would like to welcome Shaun McCamant, MSN, RN, as our Chief Nursing Officer of Clinical Operations!

Shaun joins us from HCA’s MidAmerica division, where she most recently served as the Chief Nursing Officer for Lakeview Regional Medical Center. Along with a track record of exceptional healthcare performance, she brings more than 25 years of healthcare experience and nearly two decades of nursing leadership within the HCA family to the role.  

As our CNO, Shaun will strengthen our unified clinical vision and mission. She and her team of Clinical Operations Directors will work to promote clinical excellence and ensure clinical governance across our organization, making it easier to do business with HealthTrust.  

There is nothing quite like the crisp fall air that signals the arrival of autumn. And what better way to start a new season than with a new travel nursing assignment to a fresh destination! We’ve talked to our travel recruiters across the organization and compiled a list of their top destination recommendations.

Please join us in congratulating Christina Hall, who was recently promoted to Assistant Vice President of Enterprise Operations!

In her new role, Christina will identify areas where the business may be operating inefficiently and implement solutions to help the company run more smoothly. This entails meeting with the leaders of each of our departments and field offices, gathering their feedback, and utilizing the talents of her skilled team of individuals to improve the company’s operating performance.     

“My job is to make this company easier to do business with and for,” says Christina.

HealthTrust Workforce Solutions has recently experienced tremendous expansion across all lines of business. We could not have achieved this growth without the amazing teamwork from our staff. 

HealthTrust team members at our corporate headquarters celebrated the return of football season and the expansion of our Sunrise office! Hot dogs and popcorn were available in our new kitchen, and employees were invited to wear apparel representing their favorite football teams. 

In any disaster, there are critical healthcare needs that must be addressed. When crisis situations arise, medical professionals consistently demonstrate their selfless dedication to improving the lives of others by answering the call to serve.  It is truly during times of crisis that the heart of healthcare shines most brightly. 

In this second edition of Clinical Connection, we'd like to spotlight some of the ways that our healthcare teams rose to action in the recent wake of Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma. 

HealthTrust Workforce Solutions has seen an incredible effort put forth by thousands of corporate and clinical professionals across our organization and the HCA enterprise, allowing our healthcare facilities and partners to safely care for our patients and staff in the most dire of situations. 

To date more than 500 nurses have been deployed to help with both Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma relief efforts. Here are just a few of these amazing caregivers in action as they answer the call to serve. 

We are so grateful to let you know that Florida has not only survived Hurricane Irma, but that our community and team are stronger than ever. Over the course of the last two and a half weeks, dedicated corporate team members and clinicians across the HealthTrust enterprise have been coming together in an unprecedented response to back-to-back historic hurricanes.

Working around the clock, our colleagues have provided support to dozens of impacted healthcare facilities in multiple states as they prepared for Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. I am pleased to say that we have not only been able to withstand these storms, but have come through them more resilient and with a deeper appreciation for the important role healthcare professionals play in emergency response situations. These clinicians take a peek into other people’s lives during the worst possible time, when empathy, understanding, compassion and caring are paramount.  In many instances these incredible caregivers answered the call to serve others despite experiencing their own personal feelings of anxiety and uncertainty.

While we certainly will have many lessons learned from this experience, the dedication shown by the entire HealthTrust organization, the thoughtful preparation, and just plain hard work have been nothing short of heroic. Through our coordinated response we were able to protect the most vulnerable of patients, provide additional staffing and keep most of our facilities running throughout the storms.  All of this was accomplished while still coming to the aid of our communities when they needed it most, a truly incredible team effort.

Now we focus our attention to returning to “normal”.  However, we recognize that so many of our own colleagues and communities have suffered devastating loss in these storms.  It’s hard to imagine the personal sacrifice so many made to keep working in these conditions knowing that their families and homes were in harm’s way. We are pleased that the HCA Hope Fund has already helped about 1,200 fellow employees, granting them nearly $1.4 million in aid.  

We never choose to face challenges such as we have seen these last few weeks, but it certainly makes us proud of the amazing resilience and steadfast dedication of the wonderful HealthTrust family.  Thank you for all you do and for demonstrating every day that healthcare isn’t defined by the four walls in which it is practiced- it’s defined by the people for whom and by whom it is delivered.