Recruitment: Build a Stronger Workforce
Children’s hospitals and health systems are evolving the way they recruit their workforce, create environments for teams to thrive, and optimize their staffing — including solutions for rising contract labor costs, staffing shortages in pediatric behavioral health, and new expectations from Gen Z.
Find a collection of these strategies below. If your hospital has a program making an impact, we want to hear from you.
About Children's Hospital Association
Children’s Hospital Association is the national voice of more than 200 children’s hospitals, advancing child health through innovation in the quality, cost, and delivery of care.
Strategies
How to Solve a Staffing Shortage by Reskilling Employees
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles trained nonclinical staff for patient care roles with an in-house curriculum and experiential learning opportunity.
Building a Workforce From Within
Akron Children’s removed barriers to grow its own workforce while giving underserved communities economic opportunities.
How to Reduce Contract Labor
A children’s hospital dramatically reduced its agency staffing hours and saw a 25% reduction in first-year turnover.
How to Recruit and Retain Gen Z
A conversation with two experts on the how to succeed with the incoming workforce.
Strategies for Investing in the Children’s Hospital Workforce
Children’s hospitals retain and recruit staff by devoting time and resources to culture building, financial benefits and work flexibility.
Filling the Void in Respiratory Care
A three-pronged recruitment strategy nearly doubled the number of new hires in respiratory care at one hospital system.
Benefits
3 Trends in Employee Benefits at Children's Hospitals
The 2024 benefits survey captures a detailed look at children’s hospital-sponsored benefits compared to prior years.
These Are the Employee Benefits Each Generation Wants
Learn generational expectations to create the perfect employee benefits package.
4 Ways to Increase Recruitment and Retention
Leveraging a large scope of benefits, a children’s hospital shares its methods for low employee turnover and high engagement scores.
Behavioral Health
Building Tomorrow's Behavioral Health Workforce Today
How one children’s hospital is addressing the mental and behavioral health workforce shortage by investing in training and educational programs.
A Behavioral Health Solution With Proven Outcomes
An internal nursing team empowers the frontline staff to care for behavioral health patients—and the results speak for themselves.
A Resourceful Way to Meet Behavioral Health Staffing Demands
An unlikely labor pool provides timely relief for the behavioral health crisis amid staffing shortages.
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Solutions for a Sustainable Workforce
Learn how children's hospitals and health systems are addressing workforce challenges through innovative initiatives and sustainable strategies.
Retention
Support your staff and engage employees to improve retention and reduce burnout.
Innovation
Prepare for the next generation of pediatric health care workers with inclusive, data-informed strategies.