Scottsdale Healthcare has signed a deal with the Dallas-based cost management firm Broadlane to help manage the $9 million annual workforce spend at the health system's three acute care hospitals.
Scottsdale Healthcare plans to use Broadlane Workforce Management to enhance the clinical contract workforce process including: agency contracting, agency staff requisition and fulfillment, credential and performance tracking, time tracking and reverse invoicing.
"We required a solution for our temporary workforce needs that offered cost savings, efficiency and an all-inclusive technology platform," said Judie Goe, director of talent acquisition and development at Scottsdale Healthcare.
Jeff Ondeck, senior vice president of Broadlane Workforce Management, said Scottsdale Healthcare would use Broadlane's Web-based vendor management system - wfx Workforce Exchange - to assess the availability and credentials of staff from their contracted agencies to help validate the quality of contract nursing and allied health staff working in its hospitals.
"Our workforce management solutions will provide consistency to Scottsdale Healthcare's system-wide contract workforce spend and streamline workforce management to deliver increased efficiencies and savings," said Ondeck.
Scottsdale Healthcare is the not-for-profit parent organization of the Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn Medical Center, Scottsdale Healthcare Shea Medical Center and Scottsdale Healthcare Thompson Peak Hospital.
The health system also runs the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center, Scottsdale Clinical Research Institute, Scottsdale Healthcare Home Health Services and Scottsdale Healthcare Community Health Services.