The healthcare staffing industry is a vital part of the healthcare delivery system in America, a system that has been tested by chronic worker shortages and a pandemic. Increasingly, organizations and healthcare professionals are looking for a modern, flexible, and technologically enabled staffing model. Health Carousel, one of the nation’s fastest growing and most respected providers of healthcare staffing and workforce solutions, has combined the best in digital technology with the traditional models of staffing to create a more satisfying, flexible and cost-effective experience for healthcare facilities and healthcare providers around the country.
Trust is the foundation of building incredible companies. In the healthcare industry, trust helps create robust connections that mutually elevate all those involved. Over the last few years, those most trusted have been steadfast pillars of support at a time of constant disruption and uncertainty. There can be no doubt that Health Carousel is a business built on a platform of trust – alongside an uncompromising drive to tackle the biggest challenges facing American healthcare.
Solving the Shortage Problem
The scarcity of qualified health personnel, including nurses +and physicians has been one of the primary concerns in the U.S. healthcare system since the 1970s. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, by the year 2024, there will be a need for more than 1 million nurses in the U.S. In addition, one-third of practicing US physicians are over 60 and more likely to retire over the next decade. As large numbers of aging healthcare providers head into retirement, it could create a drastic knowledge gap and a loss of experienced workers, further hindering the country’s ability to educate and train providers entering the field. In addition to staffing shortages, healthcare facilities also struggle with optimizing the usage of a wide range of staffing solutions to maximize patient care and match expected patient census seasonally and during significant outbreaks.
Healthcare facilities were challenged to respond with recruitment and staffing solutions that meet the needs of their patients and facilities even before the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic created a surge in cases and patient care demands that far surpassed the capacity of the healthcare system, both in terms of available facilities, and healthcare providers.
Dedicated to addressing such short-term and long-term workforce challenges in the healthcare industry, Health Carousel offers the finest healthcare talent and workforce solutions across a variety of healthcare occupations, including physicians, registered nurses, allied health, and advanced practice professionals. By delivering high-quality healthcare staff in real time as needs arise, it enables healthcare organizations to optimize their workforce, improve patient care, and reduce the cost of healthcare.
Delivering an Innovative Suite of Staffing Solutions
Health Carousel was founded in 2004 with a vision to ensure that every American has access to high-quality healthcare when and where they need it, and by doing so, to improve lives and make healthcare work better. Driven by this noble vision, the pioneering company offers an innovative suite of solutions designed to make staffing a healthcare facility easier, faster, and more manageable.
Health Carousel’s staffing and workforce solutions improve lives and make healthcare work better for everyone: for providers, for facilities, and— ultimately—for patients. Even as resource demands shift, Health Carousel strengthens outcomes related to cost containment, revenue enablement, and patient experience.
Health Carousel consists of a market-leading portfolio of businesses, unified by a centralized back office, responsive digital strategy, and rigorous legal and ethical standards. Together, we’re improving lives by connecting in-demand nurses, physicians, allied health, and advanced practice professionals with healthcare institutions across the country.
Health Carousel Travel Nursing
Health Carousel Travel Nursing (HCTN) connects healthcare facilities to a national network of experienced travel nurse and allied healthcare professionals for immediate and crisis support. HCTN has built a thriving, talented community of qualified, credentialed nurses and allied professionals ready to work wherever and whenever needed. With their nationwide reach, streamlined digital experience, and clinically led support team, Health Carousel is the remedy for staff shortages and career burnout. Mobility, scalability, and flexibility: it’s a workforce strategy that makes healthcare work better for everyone.
Health Carousel Locum Tenens
Health Carousel Locum Tenens (HCLT) connects healthcare facilities to a network of experienced physicians and advanced practitioners. HCLT builds career-long relationships with qualified, highly trained providers in every specialty. With their nationwide reach, streamlined digital experience, and specialty-exclusive recruiters, Health Carousel adds flexibility to workforce strategies, making it easy to focus on the most important thing: providing exceptional patient care.
Health Carousel International
Health Carousel International (HCI) opens doors for experienced and engaged global healthcare professionals to expand their career horizons at U.S. facilities. HCI connects understaffed organizations to a sustainable network of credentialed, qualified nurses, therapists, and allied providers. Their signature PassportUSA program provides an easy, end-to-end experience for all. Facilities get a talent pipeline, lower costs, and improved clinical outcomes. Providers get a transparent, knowledgeable partner to create their own American experience. With their principled commitment to the ethical recruitment of global nurses, it’s another way Health Carousel does well by doing good.
A Leader in Ethical & Sustainable Healthcare Recruitment
A founding member of the American Association of International Healthcare Recruitment (AAIHR), Health Carousel is committed to the highest standard of legal, ethical and socially responsible healthcare staffing. They follow the AAIHR Code of Ethics and are a Certified Ethical Recruitment Firm.
Health Carousel not only provides high paying career opportunities to healthcare professionals, but also supports their personal and professional lives through clinical team support, additional learning and certification opportunities and by becoming a true partner in their healthcare careers. Health Carousel provided more than $10 Million in scholarships, producing more than 100 nurse educators and 1000’s of new nurses. They created Faculty Development Training to help nurse educators adapt to necessary E-learning. They created a partnership with the DAISY awards to recognize exceptional nurses in the Philippines, Africa and the US.
A true partner in building long-term careers, Health Carousel has career options for international healthcare providers during and after their first assignment. They can:
Expand their skill set with assignments in new specialties
Pursue certification in their chosen area of specialization
Diversify their experience by working assignments in new clinical settings
Take additional full-time assignments in new geographic locations in the US
Extend their career with Health Carousel as a Travel Nurse
Become a Nurse Educator or Nurse Practitioner through their MSN work/study program
Transforming the Healthcare Staffing Experience with Technology
The healthcare staffing industry is transforming as new business models disrupt the market and nurses desire a better employment experience. Healthcare providers have an intensive journey to land their next travel assignment that requires speed and transparency at each phase of the application process.
Health Carousel is building the omni-channel healthcare staffing business of the future, where both healthcare facilities and healthcare providers can come together to deliver life-saving patient care faster and more efficiently than ever.
On Demand, Health Carousel’s proprietary digital experience platform, has expanded the way the company supports healthcare providers to incorporate a hybrid approach that allows professionals to choose their experience and navigate the travel nursing journey on their own terms. Health Carousel’s experience is completely enabled by both digital solutions and people power to provide our healthcare providers with a seamless experience across our digital assets and help our customers achieve their goals.
Despite being technologically progressive, the company understands that people and relationships are at the heart of the healthcare industry. Thus, it is creating omnichannel systems that put these relationships first, giving healthcare providers and clients the freedom to live and work the way they want to.
“We are focusing on making the experience seamless, transparent, and a valuable part of our nurse’s journey,” said Zack Storer Chief Technology and Product Officer of Health Carousel. “By tapping into advanced technologies, we are building the seamless platform for the future of the industry.”
According to John Sebastian, Chief Executive Officer of Health Carousel, the future of healthcare staffing is where high tech and high touch converge to deliver faster, more personalized, and more meaningful experiences. He believes that the convergence of people and technology speeds up unnecessarily slow systems and processes and enables the company to deliver more value to its clients and healthcare professionals. Moving into the future, Health Carousel aims to continue integrating people and technology.
Similarly, the Health Carousel Locum Network, is fueled by Lucidity, a digital staffing platform that redefines the way that physicians and advanced practitioners search for jobs. The proprietary matching engine matches healthcare providers with available assignments based on more than 15 factors. This means clients and providers get the best match to fit their needs.
Pursuing Excellence with Its Mission-Driven Approach
Committed to the highest standards, Health Carousel relentlessly works towards its higher purpose of improving lives and making healthcare work better through its healthcare staffing solutions. With its innovative solutions and mission-driven approach, it strives to makes a difference in the lives of the healthcare providers, facility partners, and the patients that rely on its team to receive the best care.
“While we measure our financial and operational results, we have an additional ‘bottom line’ that is at the core of what we do: the number of patients lives we have impacted. We have already positively impacted the lives of 9 million patients nationwide,” said Bill DeVille, Co-Founder and Chairman of Health Carousel.
This commitment to higher purpose and excellence has empowered the Health Carousel team to excel in the industry, earning recognition by Staffing Industry Analyst’s (SIA) as a fastest-growing U.S. staffing firm 6 years in a row and Best in Staffing Awards for both Client & Talent satisfaction. Beyond growth, Health Carousel is consistently recognized as a Best Place to Work and recently was awarded the 2021 Medical Mutual SHARE Award and the American Staffing Association CARE Award for exemplifying employee-driven community service, philanthropy, and volunteerism.
