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Article: Staffing solutions
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- The Greater Baton Rouge Business Report
- Article date:
- July 15, 2008
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Building it was the easy part.
Now that Baton Rouge General's Bluebonnet expansion is finished, staffing it fully is proving a challenge. An acute shortage of nurses and certain other high-demand clinical positions has spurred the General to any number of experimental and innovative tactics to attract the necessary staff to run the place.
Not growing wasn't much of an option: At the Bluebonnet campus pre-expansion, the number of patients sometimes exceeded the number of beds, which stood at 105. Post-expansion, it's 203. Ideally, a hospital is never 100% full, but hovers around 80%. Bluebonnet was way past the comfort level. Patients were being held in surgery and the emergency room until ...