Posts Tagged ‘nursing agency’

How To Get Your Medical Staffing Going And Growing

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

What is the difference between a medical staffing agency that produces over $300 Million dollars and an agency that is nearing bankruptcy?

The ideology and structure founded within the core concepts of each of these medical staffing agencies are like night and day. The marketing and the key ingredients are a big problem if not understood and respected.

To build a great medical staffing agency requires you to begin building much more than reactivity. The future success stems within the ideology and differentiation within your company.

Can your medical staffing agency function without you? If the answer is no? then your leverage power and the growth potential as well as maximizing profits and minimizing expenses are all but an illusive dream.

To cite an example: A famous coffee company in any city can run just as profitable as a Seattle based coffee house. Why? because the company has used the key drivers to its fullest potential. These type of companies are on autopilot producing revenues in massive digits.

As a medical staffing agency you are constantly faced with “turn-over” It’s a predictable fact in this industry

Contract loyalties often are illusive and can change in the drop of a hat.

Loosing contracts beyond your control pop-up now and then.

These and other factors are the traditional barriers that drive this industry to continue doing business the same old ways. The companies that begin doing business outside of this box begin to increase there business almost instantly and with less effort.

The medical staffing agencies that are considered the giants in the field use 20% of there effort to produce 80% of there results. In other words, they spend less time building clients yet they produce more profits.

How is that possible?

The key is found within the power of the drivers that distinguishes the giants within the medical staffing agencies and the smaller companies fighting for scraps. Bare in mind that when we refer to “giants” it is not based on the number of internal customers, but based on the financial
performance of the medical staffing agency.

Recognizing that Strategic Marketing is one of the most important facets of growing your business will allow you to reach upside potential. There are 9 drivers that relate to the growth, profitability and competitive superiority within Strategic Marketing for your Medical Staffing Agency.

Roy Vera, MBA is a successful medical staffing consultant. His business focus is on Marketing and Profitability for medical staffing agencies. For more information you may contact him at royvera1@gmail.com

Starting Your Own Nursing Agency Business

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

It’s no secret that the United States has a nursing shortage, one that promises to grow to alarming proportions. Too many nurses are retiring, and too few are entering the profession. To compound the problem, within the next 5 to 10 years, over 76 million Baby Boomers are scheduled to retire from the workforce, with only about 44 million Generation X’ers available to pick up the slack. This will soon place unprecedented demands for services on a health system that is already stretched thin.

This shortage of allied healthcare professionals, especially nurses have a created a new boom to the nursing agency registry business, supplemental staffing agency for medical professionals, permanent placement medical recruiter, or starting a business in homecare and staffing pool. The medical staffing industry will continue to grow because of the upcoming baby boomers, and the current supply of nurses are dwindling. The average age for nurses are in the forties, and they are not being replaced by the new generations. Entrepreneurs have made lucrative business in nursing agency, nursing registry, homecare business, medical recruiter recruiting, or as independent contractor in their own field.

The time is now for entrepreneurs to start a nursing agency,nursing registry business, operate a homecare business, or as a medical recruiter or just become an independent healthcare contractor. By being an independent healthcare contractor, you are bypassing the agency and are self employed. Healthcare facilities are the clients. Homecare are regulated by all levels of goverment from local to fedeal level. Homecare levels of regulations depends on the category of service provided to clients. Homecare services ranges from providing just companions or the more medically needed clients such as terminally ill clients. Homecare services can be in the form of social service, non-medical, and medical services.

Florence Gale
author, “How To Start Your Own Nursing Agency”

http://www.nursingbizguide.com