LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (July 10, 2009) – TotalMed, a national travel healthcare staffing company, recently completed the relocation of its executive and administrative offices to its newly constructed 21,000-square-foot office building located in Northshore Business Park in North Little Rock, Arkansas.
“This new facility was designed from the ground up with our travel nurses, travel therapists, and client healthcare facilities in mind”, says Gene Scott, the company’s president. “The office layout will be much more functional and will facilitate better communication between departments and personnel that work together the most in serving our customers. I’m also happy for our associates as well. The proximity of our new offices to the Arkansas River Trail, a biking and pedestrian trail along the Arkansas River, and the notorious Big Dam Bridge, the nation’s longest pedestrian bridge, will offer our associates opportunities to maintain a healthy lifestyle around their work.”
According to Mr. Scott, the travel healthcare industry has experienced a turbulent first half of the year, as most industries have experienced, as a result of the recent economic downturn. “The travel healthcare industry has been directly impacted because of the hardship placed on our client healthcare facilities – decreases in admissions, elective surgeries, access to capital and foundational giving along with increases in the number of uninsured patients and operating costs. As a result, there are fewer travel nursing and travel therapy jobs available. We have worked even closer with our client healthcare facilities to fill travel nurse jobs and travel therapy jobs in a fraction of the lead times of the past. Our travel nurses and travel therapists have shown great patience and understanding as we find travel assignments that meet their needs and expectations. They know these conditions will not last for long. The long-term demand for highly qualified travel healthcare professionals is still very strong.”
Even though the tough economic environment has caused consolidation within the travel healthcare industry, Mr. Scott says TotalMed is well positioned to weather the economic storm, and even thrive in the current environment. Mr. Scott points to some recently released economic indexes that indicate the nation’s economy may be on the mend. “The Economic Cycle Research Institute’s weekly leading index measuring the U.S. Economy, which we follow very closely, returned to positive territory for the first time in over 22 months. Since the staffing industry, in general, is so closely tied to GDP, that was welcome news for the industry, but we’ll have to see if that trend continues.”
About TotalMed
TotalMed staffs nurses, techs, and allied professionals on multi-week assignments in healthcare facilities in all 50 states. TotalMed was awarded the HCSS Certification with Distinction by The Joint Commission and is a founding member of the National Association of Travel Healthcare Organizations (NATHO).
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