‘Tis the season for family time, hot cocoa, and preparing your business for 2025.
That's why we've spent the past month speaking with senior executive leaders from some of the largest and most innovative healthcare staffing agencies in the United States about their bold, no-nonsense predictions for tectonic shifts, operational expectations, legislative changes, and demand fluctuations that they foresee as likely in the coming year, and we've put them all together in our first-ever long-form insights report.
Everyone we feature in the report has deep staffing operational expertise – no one hanging out on the sidelines, paid to admire the problem without solving it. You can feel confident that what you’re reading is trustworthy and credible wisdom from people who shape this industry. This includes executives from Fusion Medical Staffing, LocumTenens.com, AMN Healthcare, The Delta Companies, Curative, Employbridge, TalentBurst, Aequor, Medical Solutions, PRN, CrossMed, Supplemental Healthcare, Stability Healthcare, Atlas MedStaff, and Uniti Med.
Here are some short snippets from the predictions in the piece:
- “Travel nursing and allied firms that depended solely on MSPs for their job orders (and subsequently forgot how to sell) will be forced to sell or wind down their companies.” – Jeff Bowling
- “Housing costs will continue to make travel assignments less attractive for all skill sets. Permanent jobs, local contracts and per diem will be the preferred choices for caregivers over travel assignments. Overall, the industry will decline by 3-8% in 2025 with the travel nurse segment being the most impacted.” – Bob Livonius
- “State legislators continue to expand the scope of care allowed by advanced practitioners. That necessarily means that lower-cost advanced practitioners will be more valuable to health systems and healthcare facilities that are looking for ways to cut back on personnel spending.” – Adj Awotwi
- “I predict travel nurse bill rates will increase in the first half of 2025 versus Q4 2024. With job orders up substantially and conversion rates declining, facilities will move rates higher to get their jobs filled.” – Greg Palmer