UPMC adds Travel Staffing program
Facing nationwide nursing shortages, UPMC announced the creation of UPMC Travel Staffing, an in-house travel staffing agency within the health care provider system, at a virtual news conference Friday.
The program is intended to alleviate some of the pressure of the nursing shortage, especially as nurses experiencing burnout and looking for different options choose to work at outside travel nursing companies. It will allow registered nurses and surgical technologists to travel within the UPMC network across Pennsylvania, Maryland and New York.
“We are always thinking about how to solve some of the pressing issues in health care,” said Holly Lorenz, UPMC's chief nurse executive. “We believe UPMC is the first health system in the nation to launch their own in-house travel staffing agency, initially for RNs and surgical technologists. It's a way for us to keep our own nurses, to recruit new nurses to UPMC and to bring back nurses who have left the system.”
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