Ten Percent of Planetree Hospitals Now Use SkillSurvey as Best Practice
Ashland Community Hospital and Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare Join Growing List of SkillSurvey Clients
Wayne, PA (PRWEB) December 1, 2010
SkillSurvey, Inc. has announced that Ashland Community Hospital in Ashland, Oregon and Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare in Elmhurst, Illinois are among more than 200 hospitals and health systems that rely on SkillSurvey’s candidate assessment and sourcing solutions. SkillSurvey’s Pre-Hire 360® and Passive Candidate Compiler™ are now in use by more than ten percent of hospitals that have adopted the Planetree model of patient-centered care.
SkillSurvey’s Pre-Hire 360® will enable both hospitals to take the guesswork out of hiring decisions with an automated process that gathers and reports telling information on job candidates’ behaviors, qualifications, and skills from their managers, peers, and subordinates. With the solution, both hospitals will move from the inadequate phone reference check to a more comprehensive reference assessment to improve the quality and suitability of their hires.
Ashland and Elmhurst will also be able to access a vast pool of prospective candidates using SkillSurvey’s Passive Candidate Compiler™, a database of references participating in the Pre-Hire 360® survey who would like to be kept informed of future job openings. In relatively no time, The Passive Candidate Compiler™ will become a go-to source for Ashland and Elmhurst to recruit warm leads.
Ashland Community Hospital, which includes a 49 bed inpatient facility with a 40,000 square foot diagnostic and surgery center, has provided patient-centered healthcare to the people of Southern Oregon for more than 100 years. Ashland Community Hospital affiliated with Planetree in 2007. Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare, founded in 1926, includes a hospital that operates 330 beds and a staff of more than 3,000 employees and 600 physicians. It adopted the Planetree model of care in 2006.
“Healthcare centers such as ours that follow the Planetree model know that patient-centered care is an empowering philosophy that significantly impacts the patient experience and quality outcomes,” says Lois Grub, vice president of human resources for Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare. “We’re very pleased that the SkillSurvey solution suite will enable us to find and screen candidates with behaviors that support the Planetree philosophy. SkillSurvey will help us to uphold the Planetree values.”
Karen Herwig, vice president of human resources at Ashland Community Hospital concurs, “We are looking for workers who exhibit extraordinary compassion with patients and who are able to work cohesively with co-workers. These are just some of the behaviors that are almost impossible to judge in an interview.”
Ray Bixler, president and chief executive officer at SkillSurvey, remarks, “Because SkillSurvey was founded on over 25 years of research in job competency modeling, we know what behaviors, qualifications, and skills correlate with success in any given job. In the healthcare setting, people’s lives and the well-being of a community are at stake. The SkillSurvey suite offers far-reaching results in both quality of care and regulatory compliance.”
For more information about the new mobile version of Pre-Hire 360®, contact Scott Fuhr, director of marketing, at sfuhr(at)skillsurvey(dot)com, or at 610-947-6300, ext. 1225.
About SkillSurvey®, Inc.
SkillSurvey® is the inventor of Web 2.0 reference assessment solutions that improve recruiting efficiency and increase quality-of-hire. Its online programs allow recruiters and hiring managers to collect feedback from references on a candidate’s behaviors and work performance. The information, all gathered electronically, is used to make better hiring decisions. This patent-pending approach to reference assessments is based on over 30 years of research in job competency modeling. Visit SkillSurvey® at http://www. skillsurvey. com and on Facebook, http://on. fb. me/iaaG4R and Twitter, http://twitter. com/skillsurvey.
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