Nurses Lounge - Reimagine Staffing

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In 2001 Tim Armes took over a nursing job board named NursesLounge.com. He then launched a monthly direct mail magazine sent to 35k RNs in the DFW market. At that time, John Gavras, then president of DFWHC, gave Mr. Armes a business plan that suggested all the DFWHC member hospitals pool their nurse employees to draw temporary staff from. There would only be a small hourly mark-up fee to
cover expenses and was designed to substantially reduce each hospital’s growing staffing costs. However, the plan was never implemented even though Mr. Gavras felt confident that if a business could launch something similar, it would save his hospital members millions in staffing fees. Mr Armes kept the business plan for all these years and today, with the emergence of on-demand staffing technology, an updated version of Mr. Gavras’s business plan has finally be brought to market. Complete with the ability to save healthcare facilities millions in staffing fees annually.

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Introducing Nurses Lounge, a paradigm shift toward a subscription-based staffing model. The Mission of Nurses Lounge is to:
• Aggregate and connect the US nursing profession, (nurses and major stakeholder organizations) on a single platform.
• Maximize the distribution of information to highly targeted audiences.
• Create a highly efficient marketplace with the ability to provide more effective nurse-oriented educational and employment products and services while saving hospitals potentially millions a year in staffing fees.

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Key Features:
• Flat Monthly Fee: Hospitals gain unlimited access to a pool of local nurses for a predictable monthly subscription, eliminating high agency markups.
• Facility Workforce Platform: A unified digital marketplace for facilities that streamlines posting open shifts, nurse recruitment, and shift scheduling.
• NurseFlexPool: Nurses Lounge ensures all nurses that join the NurseFlexPool meet state license requirements providing consistent quality and compatibility with hospital needs.
• Internal Integration: Nurse Flex Pool creates a continuity-of-care that allows the substitute nurses to seamlessly align with the internal team as they become familiar with the facility, process, patient care techniques, etc.

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Conclusion
To meet the demands of the coming decade -- a paradigm shift is needed -- one that re-frames how we think about healthcare labor markets. The Nurses Lounge subscription-based on-demand staffing solution offers a sustainable, cost-effective, and flexible alternative that aligns with the evolving needs of today’s healthcare facilities.
By uniting the nursing profession on a single platform, Nurses Lounge is uniquely positioned to lead this paradigm shift that alleviates control by a middleman as well as substantially reduces financial pressures on health facilities while building a
resilient nursing workforce for the future.

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Learn more at www.NURSESLOUNGE.com