While the country is on heightened alert and waiting on what unfolds over the next weeks/months, what can health care organizations implement that may have a significant impact on public health? Media outlets continue to convey the seriousness around shortages in medical staff and supplies.

If your organization is looking to quickly and cost-effectively hire health care staff, KHA Affinity Partner HospitalCareers.com is a great recruitment solution for KHA member Hospitals/Systems. You will be able to leverage their discounted job posting plans that produce the lowest cost per job, cost per applicant (CPA) and cost per hire (CPH) of any recruitment solution across the health care industry.

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As more states announcing restrictions and state of emergencies, KHA’s partner for supplemental staffing (and locums) — Qualivis — is ready if needed.

From an emergency preparedness planning/supplemental staffing workforce perspective, background efforts are already developed and underway.

Qualivis, through their parent company, Aya, is proactively prequalifying and credentialing RNs for a potential response scenario.

Their recruiting teams are actively:

Communicating with over 450,000 additional clinicians for resource allocation efforts. Allocating full teams of recruiting, compliance, contracting, account management – solely for and specific to COVID-19 response. Working closely with their Aya Partner Network regarding non-clinical resources such as EVP to ensure a full coverage response. Identifying and have created a modified “State of Emergency” compliance checklist and protocol....

When a public health crisis or natural disaster strikes, increased demand may overwhelm your facility’s staff. While every hospital has an emergency plan, updating your plans to include contacting Qualivis for supplemental staffing needs during emergencies is an easy way to improve your strategy. When rapid response staffing is essential to meet health care demands, facilities can count on Qualivis.

How to initiate Qualivis’ Rapid Response Staffing

If a facility needs rapid response staffing, it is simple. You can contact Pam Kirchem at KHA (pkirchem@kyha.com) or your Qualivis account specialist, and they will take it from there to ensure needs are met as quickly as possible.

How Qualivis helps facilities when disaster strikes

Easy access to a nationwide network of health care staffing agencies to simplify and speed the search process, so you can focus on providing patient...

Early last year, KHA Solutions Group Affinity Partner, Healthcare Staffing Services (HSS), officially changed its name and brand to Qualivis.

Qualivis is a national provider of health care workforce solutions, specializing in supplemental staffing and committed to quality, service and leadership in transforming the workplace culture to improve patient care.

The name “Qualivis” is a combination of three words that capture who they are, what they do and why they do it.

Quality – Their core mission is to provide outstanding health care team members to improve the patient experience and outcomes, exemplify best practices in all facets of business operations and strive for excellence and continuous improvement in all that they do. Life – They provide solutions to give your team...

Until you can fill the positions permanently, KHA Solutions Group can help with your staffing challenges.

Qualivis is the Kentucky Hospital Association’s workforce solution and it offers a broad range of placement services. Qualivis reported they have seen an increase in home health needs within the program and they offer easy access to a nationwide network of health care staffing agencies to simplify and speed the search process. That means you spend less time managing contracts and fielding sales calls, and more time building a great team.

Qualivis currently aligns with 13 state hospital associations, helping nearly 400 hospitals nationwide with their workforce needs. Its vendor-neutral approach brings increased market competition in the areas of billing rates, contract terms and performance standards. Regular on-site compliance reviews are conducted with vendors to review the contract terms, compliance with Joint Commission, CMS and state regulatory requirements. Qualivis can...

The Kentucky Hospital Association (KHA) invites your facility to take advantage of HospitalCareers.com, a statewide ​recruitment ​platform called .

This online resource ​offer​s​ a cost-effective recruitment solution to help combat workforce shortages, reduce third-party agencies, replace ineffective forms of advertising​ and provide a direct link to quality health care professionals. By utilizing HospitalCareers, ​hospitals can make the most of limited budgets while saving valuable time attracting candidates directly into their applicant tracking systems.

Benefits for Kentucky Hospitals: ​

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While hospitals prefer to avoid temporary staffing, the use of travelers remains a viable solution when more traditional approaches are not successful.

Qualivis is a national provider of health care workforce solutions, specializing in supplemental staffing, but able to fill a broad spectrum of clinical and non-clinical positions through its nationwide network of more than 100 staffing agencies.

Qualivis simplifies the staffing process by offering one contract and one point of contact at no cost to the health care employer.

Qualivis is a Managed Service Provider (MSP), wholly owned by the South Carolina Hospital Association (SCHA). For 15 years, they have been helping state hospital associations provide supplemental staffing for every clinical and non-clinical department.

Benefits include:...

On January 25, KHA Solutions Group Affinity Partner Healthcare Staffing Services (HSS) officially changed its name and brand to Qualivis.

Qualivis is a national provider of health care workforce solutions, specializing in supplemental staffing and committed to quality, service and leadership in transforming the workplace culture to improve patient care.

The name “Qualivis” is a combination of three words that capture who they are, what they do and why they do it.

Quality – Their core mission is to provide outstanding health care team members to improve the patient experience and outcome, exemplify best practices in all facets of business operations and strive for excellence and continuous improvement in all that they do. Life – They provide solutions to give your team members more work-life balance and greater job satisfaction to improve retention and productivity. Qualivis provides flexible, supplemental staffing who...

Kentucky hospital human resource directors, do you need access to Travelers in all clinical backgrounds? KHA Solutions Group partners with Healthcare Staffing Services, a subsidiary of the South Carolina Hospital Association (SCHA) to help Kentucky hospitals with their staffing needs at NO COST to KHA members.

SCHA understands hospitals, and like KHA they work for hospital members’ interest. In fact, 13 state hospital associations, like KHA, use their travelers services.

Currently in Kentucky, there are 19 hospitals and/or health systems using Healthcare Staffing Services and that number is growing.

Schedule a quick conference call to ensure you are getting the best rate for your travelers, to learn more about their one vendor-neutral contract with over 100 agencies and find out how...

While many hospitals avoid temporary staffing, the use of travelers remains a viable solution when more traditional approaches are not successful. KHA Affinity Solutions Group Partner Healthcare Staffing Services is an important tool to manage traveler staffing and is available at no cost to KHA members. Healthcare Staffing Services also offers an online staffing management tool for posting and confirming open positions, scheduling and invoicing. Specific benefits of Healthcare Staffing Services include:

Single contract for all participating agencies Compliance audits No hidden fees Joint Commission certified agencies only No guaranteed hours required Compensation for non-qualified staff, no...