Hospitals are joining the gig economy and embracing apps to attract scarce nurses
a study in the journal Health Affairs showed.
SSM Health, based in St. Louis, uses two apps to offer premium pay and shifts as short as four hours. Its contracts prohibit staff from picking up gig jobs for 12 to 18 months to avoid competing for its own employees, said Seth Lovell, SSM Health’s vice president of nursing.SHANNON STAPLETON/REUTERS Henry Mayo in the Los Angeles area is using a CareRev algorithm to nudge pay for gig workers lower or higher by 5% based on the likelihood the shift will attract workers. “It’s so much easier to find a nurse on a Wednesday than it is a Saturday night,” she said.Hospitals that use the apps risk encouraging nurses to hold out for higher rates and a last-minute rush to fill schedules, said Maribeth McLaughlin, the chief nurse executive for UPMC, based in Pittsburgh.
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