A Proven Blueprint for Staffing Your Health System's Tower Expansion
Health systems across the country are investing millions in tower expansions to meet rising patient demand, capture market share, and enhance community access to care. These ambitious projects are vital for competitive growth, but their success hinges on a challenge that is frequently underestimated: staffing.
An empty, newly built tower doesn't just represent a delayed return on a massive investment; it signifies a missed opportunity to serve your community. The core issue is that traditional, steady-state recruitment models are simply not built to handle the sheer volume, speed, and complexity of staffing an entire facility expansion from the ground up.
The High-Stakes Staffing Challenge
When planning a tower expansion, the focus is often on construction timelines and capital budgets. However, failing to develop a parallel, robust talent acquisition strategy can lead to critical pitfalls that jeopardize the entire project.
- Overwhelming volume: Your internal talent acquisition (TA) team, though excellent at managing day-to-day hiring, can quickly become overwhelmed by the sudden need to fill hundreds of roles simultaneously.
- Specialized skill gaps: Finding highly specialized clinical staff—such as OR nurses, radiology techs, and respiratory therapists—is already a challenge. An expansion multiplies this demand, creating bottlenecks that can bring a launch to a screeching halt.
- Costly delays and overruns: When permanent staff can't be found in time, the immediate solution is often expensive travel labor. This inflates budgets, compromises team continuity, and is not a sustainable long-term strategy.
These challenges don't just delay openings; they can cost millions in lost revenue, strain stakeholder confidence, and risk regulatory compliance if staffing levels are inadequate.
Beyond Traditional Hiring: A Strategic Approach
To ensure your multi-million-dollar investment achieves its goals on time and on budget, a different approach is needed—one that is proactive, scalable, and strategically aligned with your expansion timeline.
Recruitment solutions (RPO) offers a proven solution, allowing health systems to partner with experts who specialize in high-volume, complex healthcare hiring. A dedicated RPO partner brings the specialized recruiters, scalable technology, and national talent pipelines required to manage the unique demands of a tower expansion.
This is more than just filling seats. It's about building a workforce strategy from the ground up.
In our latest ebook, "Staffing for Tower Expansion: A Proven Blueprint for Health Systems," we provide a comprehensive guide to navigating these challenges. You will learn:
- Why traditional staffing models fall short during large-scale expansion projects.
- How to build a proactive workforce plan that aligns with phased opening timelines, credentialing, and onboarding.
- The key advantages of an RPO partnership, including reduced time-to-fill, lower labor costs, and improved new hire retention.
- A real-world case study of how Children’s Hospital – Plano successfully hired over 400 professionals in just 8 months for their tower addition, saving $2.3 million in labor costs.
Don’t let staffing be the obstacle that undermines your growth strategy. Access our free ebook to gain the insights and confidence needed to build your team and launch your new facility successfully.
