CHG Healthcare Introduces New Program to Help Healthcare Organizations Bridge Urgent and Transitional Workforce Needs

Workforce Bridge pairs temporary coverage with permanent physician recruitment, handled in-house under one contract, backed by service-level guarantees and a clear end date

CHG Healthcare, the nation's leading physician and advanced practice workforce experts, has introduced Workforce Bridge, a structured transition and stabilization program built to give health systems a defined path to stabilize an urgent coverage gap or build a new service line from the ground up. The program formalizes what CHG's family of brands has done at scale for more than four decades: coordinating temporary coverage and permanent physician recruitment through the same in-house team.

CHG partners with 85% of healthcare organizations nationwide to solve their toughest workforce challenges. Workforce Bridge was built directly from these partnerships, in which health systems shared the need for transition coverage and permanent recruitment coordinated as one cohesive program. According to CHG's internal analysis, service-line gaps and staffing shortfalls are linked to significant patient leakage, contributing to an estimated 24% reduction in annual revenue at affected facilities. Each unfilled physician role can put as much as $14,000 in net patient revenue at risk per day, and that exposure compounds the longer a system waits to act. Without a defined transition plan, health systems are often left managing one-off openings instead of a long-term fix.

Workforce Bridge is built to close that gap before it starts and protect (or grow) the revenue tied to it. The program pairs temporary physician coverage with permanent recruitment under a single contract, giving health systems one point of accountability and a defined end date instead of an open-ended vendor relationship. In addition, the credentialing runs through CHG's NCQA-certified Credentials Verification Organization and its Modio Health award-winning OneView technology platform, which cuts typical industry credentialing timelines by 30 to 70 percent, averaging just 45 days per physician.

“Health systems have had to choose between speed and long-term stability when an emergent need surfaces,” said Melinda Giese, SVP of Client Solutions at CHG Healthcare. “We've handled temporary coverage and permanent recruitment together for years. Workforce Bridge puts that experience into a single contract with one partner, one point of accountability, and a defined end point, so health systems can move from stabilization to true workforce ownership on their own timeline, not a vendor's.”

Workforce Bridge is available now for health systems facing coverage gaps in top critical specialties, with CHG's broader team supporting more than 130 specialties in total.

About CHG Healthcare:

As the nation’s leading physician and advanced practice workforce experts, CHG Healthcare connects physicians, advanced practice providers, and allied health professionals with healthcare organizations nationwide — helping deliver high-quality care to more than 20 million patients every year.

With more than 40 years of experience, CHG Healthcare and its family of brands deliver scalable, people-centered workforce solutions — from locum tenens and permanent staffing to technology and advisory services — and are recognized for industry-leading Net Promoter Scores and partnerships with the nation’s largest health systems.

Headquartered in Salt Lake City with offices across the country, CHG is recognized as a top workplace for its culture of care, growth, and purpose. Learn more at chghealthcare.com.

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