Based on verified clinician reviews from more than 260,000 completed shifts, these top facilities are recognized for their exceptional treatment of their nursing staff, commitment to high-quality patient care, and dedication to maintaining safe staffing levels—despite the challenges of nationwide staffing shortages.
Award categories
Each award category is designed to recognize the unique efforts facilities make to help nurses feel comfortable and empowered as they walk through the doors for their shift.
- Best Rated: Recognized as one of the highest-rated facilities on Nursa, this facility stands out for delivering an exceptional experience for clinicians and patients alike.
- Rising Star: Awarded for achieving outstanding ratings as a newer or smaller facility on Nursa, this facility is quickly earning clinicians’ trust and praise.
- Most Trusted: Honored for its reliability, this facility completed more of its posted shifts than others in 2024, making it a dependable partner for clinicians.
- Clinician Choice: Chosen for consistently filling and completing shifts faster than other facilities, this facility delivers a smooth, supportive experience for clinicians.
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Key findings and trends
After selecting the award winners, Nursa reached out to the schedulers to identify common themes across staffing pain points, nurse scheduling best practices, and recommendations for improving facility workflows.
1. Effective staffing starts with clinician empowerment
- Facility schedulers often noted that having control over their staffing workflows helped them achieve better staffing outcomes at their facilities.
- Checking clinician credentials, viewing the amount of experience nurses have, and having the ability to communicate with per diem clinicians prior to the shift were all critical for finding the right clinician to work an upcoming shift.
2. Facilities had repeated success hiring clinicians from Nursa
- Clinicians found on Nursa were consistently brought onto the full-time staff at Nursa, with facilities being able to reduce onboarding costs, trust Nursa’s background checks and credentialing process, and quickly integrate clinicians into the nursing staff.
- Facilities were able to leverage Nursa not just as a platform for filling open shifts but as an extension of HR, serving as a recruitment pipeline for sourcing future hires.
3. Top-rated facilities prioritize efficiency and flexibility
- Award-winning facilities were 24.3% more likely to achieve a completed shift compared to all facilities on the Nursa platform, ensuring positive outcomes for facilities, nurses, and patient care.
- Awarded facilities were more likely to have used the Nursa platform as their preferred staffing solution over staffing agencies and other staffing platforms.
- Top facilities found success by repeatedly staffing the same clinicians for multiple shifts, resulting in improved outcomes for both the clinician and facility.
- By having clinicians come back to facilities for multiple shifts, nurses were able to acclimate and provide better patient care.
From these takeaways, the Nursa Best Facilities program uncovered that exceptional healthcare staffing isn’t just about covering unfilled shifts. Top-rated facilities consistently focused on finding clinicians that were right for their patients, and empowered these clinicians to do their best work, and often found clinicians which were a good fit in a full-time employee role.
