Healthcare employment agencies are reevaluating their strategies as interest in travel nurses wanes among both hospitals and workers. It’s another sign of the shifting needs of the industry since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Testing firms have laid off workers or folded. Telehealth companies have been challenged. Employment firms, which quickly pivoted to create a marketplace for temporary clinical help amid pandemic-related staffing shortages, benefited from the lucrative hourly rates commanded by travel nurses — wages begrudgingly accepted by hospitals. Now, however, employers are reducing their budgets for travel staff and spending more to recruit and retain permanent employees, which in turn is lowering demand and pay rates for contract workers.
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Source: https://www.modernhealthcare.com/nursing/-travel-staffing-agencies-medical-solutions-incredible-health