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Article: St. John program eases its nursing shortage; Flexible schedules help cut turnover.(News)
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- Crain's Detroit Business
- Article date:
- September 24, 2007
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Byline: Sherri Begin
A new nursing recruitment and retention initiative at St. John Health System is paying off.
Since its launch just over a year ago, the program has helped St. John attract nearly 250 new nurses, 200 of them to a flexible new internal pool of contingent nurses.
It's also helped the system score a 28 percent improvement in job satisfaction among nurses, a 26 percent reduction in voluntary nurse turnover and a registered nurse vacancy rate of just 5.5 percent during fiscal 2007, versus 9.5 percent in 2006.
"We've got the perfect storm here - a shortage of health care providers just when the mass of our population is ...