St. Vincent's HealthCare Jacksonville Launches Concerro to Ensure Open Shift Visibility and Cross-Campus Connectivity
San Diego, Calif. May 29, 2008 – San Diego-based Concerro, (formerly BidShift), the leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of effective staffing innovations for healthcare providers, has successfully implemented its web-based service at St. Vincent’s HealthCare, a not-for-profit health system serving Jacksonville, FL and the surrounding communities. Concerro was implemented at both St. Vincent’s Medical Center and St. Luke’s Hospital to provide an automated approach for filling open shifts, empowering employees, and supporting excellence in staffing.
“Concerro provides St. Vincent’s HealthCare with an integrated approach for managing the staffing needs of the health system’s two acute care facilities, and demonstrates our commitment to providing specialized solutions that help staff at both hospital campuses to collaborate in meeting the health system’s staffing needs,” said Karen Darnell, CNO for St. Vincent’s HealthCare. “Concerro provides visibility into enterprise-wide open shift needs any time and anywhere, and has helped transition the recent integration of St. Luke’s Hospital into the St. Vincent’s HealthCare system. Our staff have embraced Concerro and find it intuitive and easy to use.”
St. Vincent's HealthCare will utilize the online service to help grow and manage their newly created VIP float pool in the Jacksonville market, reduce travelers and contract agency costs, and drive employee satisfaction and retention. The health system will also be implementing Concerro’s agency management module to provide external staffing agencies with real-time visibility into designated open shifts conveniently over the Internet.
“Concerro is helping hundreds of hospitals meet their staffing needs and reduce labor costs while increasing staff satisfaction, retention, and recruitment,” stated Graham Barnes, CEO of Concerro. We are pleased to continue our expansion in the southeast market, and look forward to partnering with St. Vincent’s HealthCare to help them succeed in their staffing initiatives.”
About St. Vincent’s HealthCare
St. Vincent’s HealthCare includes St. Vincent's Medical Center, St. Luke’s Hospital, St. Catherine Labouré Manor, First Coast Primary Care, Consolidated Laboratories, St. Vincent's HealthCare Foundation, Advanced Patient Transportation, Seton Pharmacies, Consolidated Pharmacies, and other outpatient healthcare services. St. Vincent's Medical Center was founded by the Daughters of Charity in 1916 to provide health services to the sick and the poor of North Florida. Today, St. Vincent's Medical Center serves more than 25,000 inpatients each year, about 50,000 patients for outpatient surgery and invasive procedures and more than 60,000 people in its Emergency Room. St. Vincent’s Medical Center has received HealthGrades’ Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence™ four years in a row (2005-2008). St. Vincent's HealthCare is a member of Ascension Health, the nation’s largest Catholic ad nonprofit health system, with more than 100,000 associates serving in 67 acute care hospitals.
About Concerro
Concerro, formerly known as BidShift, is a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) company that uses Web 2.0 technology to deliver excellence in healthcare staffing, matching nurses and other healthcare employees with available shifts, online and in real-time. Based in San Diego, Calif., Concerro helps healthcare organizations across the U.S. realize cost savings, recruit and retain staff, and advance clinical quality with data-driven decision making. To learn more, visit
www.concerro.com.