Under this arrangement, AzHHA Members will have access to additional tools and resources to manage their healthcare staffing needs. Full featured VMS (vendor management system) software and OSM (open-shift management) software will now be offered to complement the Service Corp’s long standing AzHHA Registry Program.

“AzHHA Service Corporation is delighted to partner with Symmetry’s VMS and OSM offering.  This partnership will enhance our ability to address healthcare staffing solutions for AzHHA member hospitals,” said John Koeneke, Director AzHHA Service Corporation.

The VMS system allows facilities to fully automate the entire process of working with outside staffing vendors while the OSM system allows facilities to better deploy their internal, float, and per-diem staff, prior to utilizing the services of outside agencies.

“AzHHA has been helping hospitals address their healthcare workforce challenges for more than a decade and we’re really excited to be working with them as partners in this capacity” said Michael Wheeden, Symmetry’s President, VMS Services.

About Symmetry: Symmetry Healthcare Strategies provides staffing program management, consulting and business development services to hospitals, hospital associations and healthcare companies throughout the United States. Symmetry’s mission is to develop a true “balanced-partnership” with our members in order to strategically and cost-effectively help them meet today’s healthcare business challenges.

About AzHHA Service Corp: The Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association Service Corporation (AzHHA Service Corporation) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association. AzHHA Service Corporation was created to provide a variety of high quality, cost-effective business solutions to Association members and provides a variety of high quality, cost-effective business solutions to Association members, with products and services working together to conserve administrative time and resources.

With ShiftExpress, healthcare facilities and staffing agencies can easily communicate and fill open staffing position in the areas of Nursing, Allied Health, Locum Tenens as well as non-direct patient care positions like Programmers (I.T.), Security, Housekeeping and Administrative support services.  The new system is unique in that it has been designed specifically for Associations and their members, by former association employees, who have incorporated their experience and the customer feedback they’ve received over the past eight years into the new system.

ShiftExpress was built on the belief that healthcare facilities need an intuitive, and simplistic yet technically advanced tool to efficiently and safely procure supplemental staff.  For staffing agencies the tool needed to be user friendly and provide a broader scope of options that would simplify and enhance the process of communication with their healthcare partners without demanding additional steps and resources.

In addition to the performance, security, support and reliability benefits associated with the .Net upgrade, users will benefit immediately from the new platform in terms of its ability to handle real time system upgrades and enhancements as well as the ability to integrate with Symmetry’s more sophisticated Staffing Vendor Management (VMS) and Open Shift Management (OSM) workforce products.

“We believe ShiftExpress is the perfect tool for those organizations who want to simplify and bring efficiencies to the process of procuring supplemental staff” said Diane Adams, RN, MBA, President, Staffing Services for Symmetry. “Our hospital association roots give us a unique perspective on how to effectively partner with Associations to build and manage their staffing programs, either for or with them, and ShiftExpress is a vital staffing program component”.

About Symmetry:  Symmetry Healthcare Strategies is a leading provider of clinical work force management solutions, contingent staff management and staffing consulting services to hospitals, hospital associations, and other healthcare providers throughout the United States. Symmetry’s mission is to help hospitals and healthcare facilities to better manage their core and supplemental clinical workforce in a way that provides efficiency to the process and helps control costs, reduce open shifts and ensure quality care for their patients.  For more information, please visit www.symmetryhealthcare.com.

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“Obtaining my Master’s degree in Business Administration has been a personal goal of mine and I’m pleased to have reached it. The increased business skills I obtained throughout the program have enhanced my business acumen and have been providing greater insights and solutions to the workforce issues our clients are facing. I have a winning combination of clinical and business experience now. The combined skill-set offers clients that work with Symmetry assurance of a broad, unique perspective, and will enable a more holistic approach to dealing with the staffing issues they need solutions for”.

Rider is a premier business school and one of the few schools world-wide to receive accreditation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

Mary Anne Marra, Chief Nurse Executive at Bergen Regional Medical Center remarks, “Bergen Regional Medical Center recently launched the Symmetry Vendor Management Solution and we were quickly able to realize measurable efficiencies in procuring and confirming supplemental staffing agency needs, electronic credentials compliance and invoice automation.  The system allows us to capture and manage financial and nursing data metrics through automation that previously required more time consuming manual effort. The Symmetry Vendor Management System has helped us run our Medical Center more confidently and effectively.”

About Symmetry: Symmetry Healthcare Strategies provides staffing program management, consulting and business development services to hospitals, hospital associations and healthcare companies throughout the United States. Symmetry’s mission is to develop a true “balanced-partnership” with our members in order to strategically and cost-effectively help them meet today’s healthcare business challenges.

About Bergen Regional Medical Center: Located at 230 East Ridgewood Avenue in Paramus, NJ, Bergen Regional Medical Center provides a comprehensive set of quality services including Long Term Care, Behavioral Health Care and Acute Care to the Bergen County community. Bergen Regional is both the largest hospital with 1,070 beds and the largest licensed nursing home in New Jersey. The entire Medical Center, including its Long Term Care Division, is fully accredited by the Joint Commission. Less than 6% of Long Term Care facilities nationwide pursue and receive Joint Commission accreditation.

“Our client members have asked for a simple to use, reliable and economical solution to help them manage the day to day challenges and vendor relationships they face in the area of clinical work force management. APS conducted an extensive due diligence process and looked at several prominent solutions and in the end, selected Symmetry Healthcare Strategies. We are extremely confident that Symmetry can meet the needs of our membership and provide them with the right products and services to improve what is often a complex, tedious and frustrating process.” said Jan O’Brien, Executive Director of the APS Staffing Program.

Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Symmetry Healthcare, Dan Dwyer, added, “APS is great partner and strong advocate for its members. We are very pleased to be their selected vendor of choice and look forward to the opportunity to provide their members with our industry leading clinical staffing/work force management solutions.

Symmetry’s product suite is comprised of software solutions that help healthcare organizations optimize the effectiveness of deploying and managing their internal resources (per-diem staff and internal resource pools) while also providing access to a feature rich vendor management system (VMS) to optimize the effectiveness of managing their external (agency staff) resources.

 About Symmetry: Symmetry Healthcare Strategies is a leading provider of clinical work force Management solutions, contingent staff management and staffing consulting services to hospitals and healthcare providers throughout the United States. Symmetry’s mission is to help hospitals and healthcare facilities to better manage their core and supplemental clinical workforce in a way that provides efficiency to the process and helps control costs, reduce open shifts and ensure quality.

About APS: Associated Purchasing Services (APS) is a group purchasing organization affiliated with the Missouri Hospital Association (MHA) and the Kansas Hospital Association (KHA). The primary mission of APS is to advance the missions of MHA and KHA by serving as a dedicated advocate for hospitals by reducing the expense of managing their products and services and enhancing revenues. More information on APS can be found at www.apskc.org. 

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You’ll find easier access to our key online content areas including our products and services as well as integration with leading social networks like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.  These social sites provide a fun and interactive forum for individuals to follow the full gamut of company activities including events, photos from installations in progress, and much more.

Additionally, users will find more ways to contact us and to communicate with us including interactive maps and a user feedback tool that will allow users to leave a comment, provide feedback and participate in a user orientated online community.

“The release of our new site is a direct result of our successful and continued growth.  Our clients and prospective clients can now gain a deeper understanding of just what Symmetry can provide as well as leverage the various components of our site to better communicate with us” said Dan Dwyer, Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Symmetry Healthcare Strategies.

About Symmetry: Symmetry Healthcare Strategies provides staffing program management, consulting and business development services to hospitals, hospital associations and healthcare companies throughout the United States. Symmetry’s mission is to develop a true “balanced-partnership” with our members in order to strategically and cost-effectively help them meet today’s healthcare business challenges.  www.symmetryhealthcare.com

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Robert Kelly, (732) 403-3254
media@symmetryhealthcare.com

Today, over 75 New Jersey Hospitals are successfully using Symmetry Healthcares’ registry management solution.  “The addition of VMS is a natural extension of our relationship and will bring significant value to our members by providing useful solutions that include scheduling, credentialing, and staff management” said Bill Kennedy, Senior VP, Healthcare Business Solutions at NJHA.

Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Symmetry Healthcare, Dan Dwyer, added, “NJHA is great partner and strong advocate for its members.  We are very pleased to be selected as their vendor of choice in the area of supplemental nurse staff solutions.  Our clients have been very happy with our solutions and through this new/expanded relationship they will have increased options to obtain and use a complete web based tool set to address their needs in vendor management.”

About Symmetry:  Symmetry Healthcare Strategies provides consulting, staffing program management and business development services to hospitals, hospital associations, and healthcare companies throughout the United States. Symmetry’s mission is to develop a true “balanced-partnership” with our clients in order to strategically and cost-effectively help them meet today’s healthcare business challenge.

About NJHA:  The New Jersey Hospital Association (NJHA) is a not-for-profit trade organization committed to helping New Jersey hospitals and health systems provide quality, accessible and affordable care to their communities. It offers an array of services and resources, including advocacy, data, education and many others, to support hospitals in their caring mission.

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Under the terms of the agreement Symmetry will utilize the B4Health platform to offer Symmetry branded solutions and pair them with their professional services, creating a suite of solutions to help hospitals better manage their workforce members and enhance Symmetry’s current offerings.

Symmetry and B4Health will offer a fully integrated solution set of Staffing Effectiveness tools focused on scheduling, credentials compliance, open shift management and vendor management solutions.

“This new relationship will capitalize on existing synergies of strong customer relationships, extensive industry knowledge and visionary solution design that will enable current and future customers to manage their workforce with the highest degree of efficiency and effectiveness” said Mike Wheeden, President of B4Health.

Guy Evans, President and Founder of Symmetry Healthcare, added “we are very excited about the relationship with B4Health.  The extensive software development and industry experience of B4Health allows Symmetry to broaden the services and solutions currently offered to our existing clients and also expands our solution set to meet the evolving demands of the market.”

About Symmetry: Symmetry Healthcare Strategies provides staffing program management, consulting and business development services to hospitals, hospital associations and healthcare companies throughout the United States. Symmetry’s mission is to develop a true “balanced-partnership” with our members in order to strategically and cost-effectively help them meet today’s healthcare business challenges.  www.symmetryhealthcare.com

About B4Health: Bid4Health’s web-based healthcare Workforce and Staffing Effectiveness Solution automates recruiting, scheduling, time management, skills inventory, credential compliance monitoring, financial reporting, auto and reverse invoicing, text and voice messaging and vendor management services.  www.b4-health.com

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Robert Kelly, (732) 403-3254
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Today, over 75 New Jersey Hospitals are successfully using the Registry Management solution under the guidance and supervision of the Symmetry management team.  “The extension of the current agreement is a byproduct of our successful relationship and the superior service that Symmetry provides to our members.  We are confident that this relationship will continue to bring significant value to our members” said Bill Kennedy, Senior VP, Healthcare Business Solutions at NJHA.

Symmetry President and CEO Guy Evans added, “NJHA is a great partner and strong advocate for its members. We are very pleased to be their selected vendor of choice for registry management services and look forward to our continued relationship.”

Additionally, Symmetry also announced its launch of an Allied Health component to its registry management program.  The program will now cover Allied Health Professionals, including but not limited to respiratory and occupational therapists, pharmacy, laboratory and radiology staff. The addition of the Allied Health program was in direct response to feedback from our Participating Institutions and Agencies.

“With the addition of Allied Health, our participating institutions and agencies now have increased options to secure and provide needed staff in key patient service areas.  It’s a win-win situation for all” said Diane Adams, President Symmetry Staffing Services.

About Symmetry:  Symmetry Healthcare Strategies provides software, consulting, staffing program management and business development services to hospitals, hospital associations, and healthcare companies throughout the United States. Symmetry’s mission is to develop a true “balanced-partnership” with our clients in order to strategically and cost-effectively help them meet today’s healthcare business challenge.

About NJHA:  The New Jersey Hospital Association (NJHA) is a not-for-profit trade organization committed to helping New Jersey hospitals and health systems provide quality, accessible and affordable care to their communities. It offers an array of services and resources, including advocacy, data, education and many others, to support hospitals in their caring mission.

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Robert Kelly, (732) 403-3254
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Under the expanded partnership of Symmetry and NJHA, Symmetry will provide NJ hospitals with much needed and hard-to-find allied health professionals.  Symmetry and NJHA share unique goal-oriented visions to provide and maximize accessible-quality healthcare to citizens in NJ. The addition of Allied to the already successful Nursing program will be another step in the right direction toward that goal.

About Symmetry: Symmetry Healthcare Strategies provides staffing program management, consulting and business development services to hospitals, hospital associations and healthcare companies throughout the United States. Symmetry’s mission is to develop a true “balanced-partnership” with our members in order to strategically and cost-effectively help them meet today’s healthcare business challenges.

About NJHA: The New Jersey Hospital Association (NJHA) is a not-for-profit trade organization committed to helping New Jersey hospitals and health systems provide quality, accessible and affordable care to their communities. It offers an array of services and resources, including advocacy, data, education and many others, to support hospitals in their caring mission.