LGP took a look at the nursing salaries and compared them to competitors in the area. Shift differentials were looked at by the entire market for the area in which LGP is located. It was discovered in the assessment that LGP was under paying nurses. The plan for 2017 is staffing salaries will be adjusted to above the median salary for nurses in the area. Shift differentials were adjusted in the market to be consistent with each hospital in the market and comparable to competitor salaries in the area.
Another opportunity is educating or terminating low performers. It is difficult to dismiss employees who are not performing because they have been employed by the facility for a long period of time. These employees have been allowed to …show more content…
Employees are happy with clear expectations that are fair and consistent for everyone.
B4.
Threats to a community hospital such as LGP are competitors opening urgent care facilities and lack of attendance at job fairs in the area by recruiters.
The new wave of healthcare is urgent care facilities which cut down on emergency department visits and can pull potential patients out of the companies market. The urgent cares that are in the LGP market are part of the competitors company and are opening urgent care centers around hospitals which are decreasing visits through the emergency departments. Not only are they affecting LGP’s emergency department visits they are referring patients to facilities in their company, which in turn are taking business out of the LG market. This can affect the overall business case for specialties such as general surgery, primary care and orthopedics to name a few. Urgent care facilities are a major threat to LGP and the entire market by taking business to the …show more content…
However, it is surrounded by local colleges, which are an excellent way to obtain new employees. Local job fairs are very important to obtain employees who meet the needs of a growing company and even more important to obtain nurses to take care of patients. LGP lacks job fair participation by having minimal attendance at these events. The cooperation in which LGP is affiliated has an outside source in which human resources manages the recruiting aspect for the LGP market. With the focus being on larger facilities the smaller local colleges that are surrounding LGP are missed in the job fairs. The main focus of the market is to hit the larger job fairs. The recruiters who attend the larger job fairs are unfamiliar with the more rural facilities and focus on the larger facilities. By showing a lack of interest in the local colleges surrounding LGP nurses are not seeking employment at LGP. With a huge nursing shortage in the nation this could be detrimental to obtaining staff in a rural setting such as LGP. Recruiting staff throughout the facility is critical for the growth. Attendance at job fairs locally would assist with the need for nurses and
Another opportunity is educating or terminating low performers. It is difficult to dismiss employees who are not performing because they have been employed by the facility for a long period of time. These employees have been allowed to …show more content…
Employees are happy with clear expectations that are fair and consistent for everyone.
B4.
Threats to a community hospital such as LGP are competitors opening urgent care facilities and lack of attendance at job fairs in the area by recruiters.
The new wave of healthcare is urgent care facilities which cut down on emergency department visits and can pull potential patients out of the companies market. The urgent cares that are in the LGP market are part of the competitors company and are opening urgent care centers around hospitals which are decreasing visits through the emergency departments. Not only are they affecting LGP’s emergency department visits they are referring patients to facilities in their company, which in turn are taking business out of the LG market. This can affect the overall business case for specialties such as general surgery, primary care and orthopedics to name a few. Urgent care facilities are a major threat to LGP and the entire market by taking business to the …show more content…
However, it is surrounded by local colleges, which are an excellent way to obtain new employees. Local job fairs are very important to obtain employees who meet the needs of a growing company and even more important to obtain nurses to take care of patients. LGP lacks job fair participation by having minimal attendance at these events. The cooperation in which LGP is affiliated has an outside source in which human resources manages the recruiting aspect for the LGP market. With the focus being on larger facilities the smaller local colleges that are surrounding LGP are missed in the job fairs. The main focus of the market is to hit the larger job fairs. The recruiters who attend the larger job fairs are unfamiliar with the more rural facilities and focus on the larger facilities. By showing a lack of interest in the local colleges surrounding LGP nurses are not seeking employment at LGP. With a huge nursing shortage in the nation this could be detrimental to obtaining staff in a rural setting such as LGP. Recruiting staff throughout the facility is critical for the growth. Attendance at job fairs locally would assist with the need for nurses and