busy hospital corridor

RPO in Healthcare


According to the 2012 Staffing Industry Analysts Healthcare Industry Staffing Buyers Survey, 28 percent of healthcare buyers currently use recruitment process outsourcing, with another ...
healthcare costs (2)

Obamacare: A Lawyer’s Personal Perspective


The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act might just as easily be called the Employment Lawyers’ Full Employment Guarantee Act. This unduly complex and confusing piece of legislation ...
US healthcare

ASA Explains the Look-Back Rule


Ed Lenz, senior counsel of the American Staffing Association, led the staffing industry’s discussions with the Obama administration on the proposed look-back rules for determining ...
calendar

Is the ACA 12-Month Look-Back Actually More Like Three Months?


The penalties and discrimination rules of the Affordable Care Act are prompting many staffing firms to consider offering to all full-time temporary employees the comprehensive health ...
government costs

Misclassifying Workers to Avoid Healthcare Mandates Can Backfire


While the Affordable Healthcare Act doesn’t go into full effect until 2014, the employee count to determine which employers meet the 50 full-time employee threshold for the Act’s ...
Nursing (2)

Making Temporary Permanent – Nurses Changing Perceptions


In a study released last month by the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, temporary or supplementary nurses could be ‘life savers’ for hospitals experiencing a shortage ...
2013

Problem Solving in Branch Organizations No. 3


We’re in the home stretch for 2012 and it’s all about you, right?  Your company, your budget, your branches, your numbers. November often skids away from actual thanksgiving and ...
healthcare

Health Care Reform and Staffing Agencies – A Strategic Perspective


With the election over and 2012 coming to an end, employers are one step closer to January 1, 2014 – the date when most of the remaining provisions of the Patient Protection and ...
voting

Post Election Analysis: What’s in it for the VMS world?


In addition to electing a President on Nov. 6, Americans also made the case for mandated insurance exchanges in every state. As could be expected, most “red” states had withheld ...
storm

Get Ready for the Next Big (CW) Storm


For the second time in 14 months, I’ve recently found myself preparing for a hurricane.  Last year it was Irene, this time it was Sandy.  Until last year, I had never had ...
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