At Incredible Health, we’re on a mission to help healthcare professionals live better lives and find and do their best work. Part of that is transforming healthcare hiring and redefining how health systems grow in a way that is sustainable for the nursing workforce. As we enter the final month of 2024, health systems are looking ahead to ambitious goals for the coming year: reducing reliance on costly temporary labor, expanding their operations, and driving financial performance. Yet, the critical path to achieving these goals often hinges on solving one of the industry’s toughest challenges: filling high-demand, permanent nursing roles.
Specialized nursing roles in units like medical surgical and the operating rooms are critical for delivering high-quality care and driving operational success for health systems. Yet, traditional hiring methods often fail to meet the demand, leaving these essential positions vacant and forcing health systems to depend on costly temporary labor, reduce services, or slow expansion efforts. Incredible Health is stepping in to change that dynamic. With the launch of our new features, Spotlight Jobs and Direct Connect, we’re empowering health systems to address these challenges head-on, transforming how they recruit and retain permanent nursing talent.
This momentum comes at a pivotal time. Capital spending in healthcare is surging in 2024, as health systems are eager to scale, innovate, and future-proof their operations. Yet, none of this growth is possible without first addressing the labor gaps that threaten to derail progress. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce the launch of our powerful new features, now live for all Incredible Health users, designed to tackle these workforce challenges and drive meaningful impact for both health systems and nurses.
These features include:
- Spotlight Jobs – Specialized and leadership nursing roles are vital to health systems’ success but remain the most challenging to fill. Incredible Health’s Spotlight Jobs aligns the health system leaders’ priorities with their recruiting teams, enabling them to hire these high-priority permanent positions 76% faster than traditional methods. Through Incredible Health’s nationwide permanent nurse talent network and Spotlight Jobs, health systems are able to meet the unique healthcare needs of the communities they serve.
- Direct Connect – With Direct Connect, nurses can jump to the front of the line, and directly schedule interviews with employers for roles that fit their skills and values. The payoff? Nurses are 8x more likely to accept job offers, accelerating qualified hires and boosting career opportunities for today’s healthcare workforce.
This launch is just one example of how the Incredible Health team has expanded and empowered nurses and health systems to address evolving healthcare needs in 2024 and beyond. This time last year, we became the first healthcare career marketplace to implement generative AI into our product. Earlier in 2024, we published two reports revealing new findings for the industry – our Fifth Annual State of US Nursing Report and our Healthcare Executive Report. We also emphasized the importance of policy education by launching a Healthcare Policy Navigator to keep nurses informed during the 2024 presidential election.
I’m thrilled to be closing out this year with our award-winning marketplace reaching major milestones – and even more humbled to have recently made it on the TIME100 NEXT list. Our AI-powered marketplace is now used by 66% of US metro areas, and over 1,500 hospital locations – from big health systems like Tenet Healthcare and Ascension to large regional systems like Baylor Scott & White Health and Wellstar, and academic medical centers like Johns Hopkins Health System, NewYork-Presbyterian, Cedars-Sinai, and many others. Now with Incredible Health, health systems hire permanent nurses in 20 days or less and save an average of $5 million per year per facility.
“Navigating a time-consuming job search as a nurse is exhausting – but finding Incredible Health was a game changer for me,” said Cristina Sumido, RN, BSN, “I can’t say enough about how supportive and easy it’s been to use Incredible Health’s apps to find a new job. I feel in control over my career in ways that I never thought possible. Instead of feeling trapped in a draining, unproductive job search, I can focus on what truly matters – providing patient care and making a difference.”
Reflecting on our company’s growth over the past 7 years, we’ve cracked the code to smarter, faster nurse hiring by flipping the traditional process on its head. Now, qualified, specialized nurses can create an Incredible Heath profile and take charge of their nursing career—no more endless applications, delays and being ignored. It’s a game-changer for both nurses and employers, and we aren’t stopping here. As we head into the new year, we’re buzzing with excitement about the growth and momentum we’ve achieved, and we can’t wait to build upon it and revolutionize hiring for health systems even further.
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