PeaceHealth, a six-hospital health system based in Bellevue, Wash., has begun implementation of a managed services deal that will increase the number of outsourced clinical staff and workforce management processes.
PeaceHealth operates hospitals, medical groups, a chemical dependency program, healthcare joint ventures and other services in Alaska, Washington and Oregon. The health system signed a staffing deal with San Diego-based AMN Healthcare Services last fall, according to Carol Aaron, PeaceHealth's senior vice president of culture and people.
Under terms of the agreement, AMN will provide a mix of per diem and travel healthcare professionals to meet some of PeaceHealth's clinical staffing needs.
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Aaron said PeaceHealth entered the Managed Services Program agreement with AMN in order to acquire “appropriately skilled and credentialed local and travel nursing and allied professionals.”
The health system employs more than 11,500 staff across three states.
Bob Livonius, AMN's Strategic Workforce Solutions president, said AMN will be the primary supplier of supplemental clinical staffing under the agreement, and will also manage several subcontractor agencies to ensure that positions are reliably filled with consistent levels of quality.
He said PeaceHealth would use the company’s single source proprietary technology to standardize supplemental staffing processes and capture compliance best practices.
Last year AMN acquired Arlington, Texas-based Medfinders, creating the largest healthcare managed services provider in the United States. The MSP agreements executed since the acquisition was announced have a cumulative gross spend under management by AMN of more than $40 million.