Mercy Medical Center Buys BidShift Software
Mercy Medical Center, Roseburg, Oregon has selected California-based BidShift’s software to automate the filling of open shifts. The Trauma III 153-bed facility admitted 10,820 patients in 2004-2005 and saw 39,038 patients in its Emergency Department. BidShift is sold through a monthly subscription with no upfront capital investment. The software provides ongoing access to open shifts to nurses through the web. The BidShift system matches shifts to personnel based on their skills and lets management set up a variety of incentives to fill shifts, including traditional and reverse auctions. Mercy Medical Center has chosen the ShiftRewards incentive system as their primary mechanism for hard-to-fill shifts along with select pay incentives. Staff receives points when they bid on a shift and when they are awarded a shift, which can be redeemed for rewards such as gift cards, vacation, or cash.
Usually hospitals call temporary staffing agencies to fill openings at a significant extra cost, in a context of ongoing nursing shortage. According to BidShift its clients save between $400,000 and $3.2 million per hospital thanks to its software. Source: press release, see also this TMCnet article from December last year.
June 14, 2006 Related topics: Contract Awards, IT & software, Cost savings