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| Manage the agency contracting cycle. |
Find quality agencies and get them on the same page.
Over the course of the last 25 years Ascent's founder Michael Spencer, in his previous role as an agency owner competing against dominate industry providers, successfully bid and won major contracts with large medical organizations. These are a few examples;
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Letterman Army Medical Center |
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Oakland Naval Medical Center |
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Veteran's Administration Medical Centers |
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Kaiser Permanente |
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Most University of California Medical Centers |
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Mercy Healthcare System |
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Sutter Healthcare System |
| As well as hundreds of individual healthcare centers. |
This depth of experience enables Ascent Clients to receive a contracting process that crystallizes their unique requirements and discerns the ability of each agency to meet those needs.
Our focus is on long-term solutions, which work in both abundant and tight markets and finds the delicate balance between effective recruiting and fiscal restraint.
Put an industry veteran on your side of the bargaining table.
Contracting Services include:
RFP (Request for Proposal)
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Identify potential vendors. |
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Identify your standards of care, legal requirements, service imperatives, expectations, and financial constraints. |
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Identify agency measures of quality. |
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Prepare time-line for contracting process and forward RFP to identified agencies. |
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Establish agency initial RFP question forum and consolidate responses to participating agencies. |
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Develop the final agency contract format |
AGENCY SCREENING
Filter agency responses based upon conformance to contract requirements, indicators of quality and ability to perform.
AGENCY NEGOTIATION
Maximize your purchasing power.
Ascent has Win - Win pricing strategies which optimize your recruiting exposure and minimize cost without penalizing the quality agencies you want to work with.
Ascent will help you improve your competiveness in the travel and per diem nurse market place. We will motivate your top agencies, and improve your overall cost per nursing hour.
Ascent offers an array of services that puts you in control of the supplemental staffing process. Contact us.
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