Sumo Medial Staffing

If you’re a hospital administrator or medical office manager we have a question for you: how often in just the first few months of this year have you had to deal with staffing shortages and/or increasing patient demands on your employees (nurses and physicians in particular)? 

Have you thought of partnering with a locum tenens staffing service to help?  

Here are three benefits of using the services of a locum agency:

Prevent burnout

Thousands of doctors and nurses are quitting the professions for which they trained for years due to burnout. 

A shortage of these professionals on staff serves to stretch the remaining team members thin, lowering the quality of care and raising the chance of medical errors. 

Locum tenens professionals allow you to fill in staffing, thus helping to alleviate the far-too-great workload on permanent staff.  

Burnout also considerably raises the chance of medical errors.  

 Improve full-time staff’s work-life balance

When doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers spend hours on the job, their personal lives suffer. 

Using the expertise found in locum tenens professionals, you can allow them much-needed time off to cover vacations, leaves of absence and additional shifts.  

Giving permanent staff time off to recharge, spend time with their families, take a sabbatical (or even just take a longer weekend) can be a massive retention tool because when your staff members feel cared for and supported, they tend to stay with a company long-term.  

Improve morale and boost retention

People who love to work at their employer tend to stay with that employer. 

High employee morale is critical to high retention numbers. 

This makes sense: humans tend to stick around people/places when we’re happy. 

A happy professional workforce at your healthcare facility means a long-term workforce: you’ll enjoy the benefits of team members who stay with you for years and years, thus lowering your recruiting costs considerably. 

How much could you save in employee replacement costs? It depends, of course, but the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) has a comprehensive article from 2022 that gives a great overview of the “real costs” cost of recruitment. 

And let’s not forget how powerful a positive work environment can be when you do have to recruit: word always gets around about how well your facility focuses on staff well-being; you’ll attract top talent as a result. 

From helping you prevent staff burnout, improving your employees’ work-life balance, preventing staff burnout, etc. partnering with an experienced locum tenens staffing service will help your healthcare facility become one with a positive work environment that attracts the best healthcare professionals, greatly contributing to your facility’s long-term success. 

Learn more about how SUMO Staffing can help you find terrific locum tenens professionals.