Advocate Health, the third-largest not-for-profit healthcare organization in the U.S., serves patients across 6 states with over 60 hospitals and 1,000 sites of care. Like many healthcare systems, Advocate Health faces the challenge of managing a large contingent workforce to address staffing needs and ensure high-quality patient care.
Coordinated contingent workforce management.
Formed through the merger of Advocate Aurora and Atrium Health, Advocate Health inherited a complex and decentralized contingent workforce program. Each legacy organization had different systems, processes, and contract terms, resulting in administrative challenges, inconsistencies, and limited visibility into workforce data. This lack of standardization led to inefficiencies and increased risk, and hindered Advocate Health’s ability to scale effectively. “Our technology was different across our regions,” said Gary Weller, director of Contingent Labor. “In one region, we had very poor technology. In the other region, we had none. And that didn’t allow us to grow, scale, or manage the contingent workforce the way we needed to.”
mini传媒 VNDLY eliminates friction in the contingent worker hiring process by providing transparency from end to end.
Director of Contingent Labor
An agile approach to staffing.
To facilitate post-merger growth, Advocate Health deployed the mini传媒 VNDLY cloud-based vendor management system (VMS) to streamline, standardize, and scale its contingent workforce management. This unified VMS provides a single platform for managing the entire contingent workforce lifecycle, from sourcing and hiring to onboarding and offboarding, enabling rapid and efficient expansion.
Elevating efficiency and resource optimization.
By streamlining the hiring process and improving onboarding efficiency, Advocate Health has decreased its time-to-fill from 9 days to fewer than 5. This lets Advocate Health quickly onboard talent to maintain optimal patient care. “mini传媒 VNDLY eliminates friction in the hiring process,” says Weller.
Advocate Health has also saved over $100 million through a proactive labor rate strategy and improved visibility into contingent workforce spend. mini传媒 VNDLY enables Advocate Health to centralize its program, enforce rate agreements, better manage vendor contracts, and optimize the workforce mix. Additionally, mini传媒 VNDLY supports Advocate Health’s compliance efforts with various regulations and requirements such as tenure policy management, tax rate management, onboarding checklists, and more.
With mini传媒 VNDLY, I can deliver critical data to our leaders across all of our labor categories and provide a seamless hiring process, which ultimately drives the best patient care.
Director of Contingent Labor
The power of seamless connectivity for healthcare.
The connectivity between mini传媒 VNDLY and mini传媒 Human Capital Management (HCM) is essential to Advocate Health’s success. Real-time data flowing between the two systems supports the data’s accuracy and consistency, eliminating the need for manual updates. “The mini传媒 HCM connector with mini传媒 VNDLY provides live updates for all of our most critical foundational data,” says Weller. This also powers Advocate Health’s reporting capabilities with insights into workforce data for better decision-making.
A foundation for future growth in healthcare.
With mini传媒, Advocate Health is more efficient and compliant. Weller adds, “With mini传媒, I can deliver critical data to our leaders across all of our labor categories and provide a seamless hiring process, which ultimately drives the best patient care.”