Fastaff Travel Nursing and U.S. Nursing - Fastest-Growing Company of the Year

Company: Fastaff Travel Nursing and U.S. Nursing
Entry Submitted By: Pushkin PR
Company Description: Fastaff Travel Nursing and U.S. Nursing are the pioneer and industry leaders in Rapid Response® travel nurse staffing. From natural disasters to census spikes to contagions and pandemics, Fastaff proves to be the reliable partner for healthcare systems nationwide in urgent and crucial situations, sending experienced and high acuity nurses in ten days or less, and often in 24-48 hours.
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Nomination Sub Category: Fastest-Growing Company of the Year - in Canada and the U.S.A.

Nomination Title: Fastaff Travel Nursing and U.S. Nursing

Fastaff Travel Nursing and U.S. Nursing are the pioneer and industry leaders in Rapid Response® travel nurse staffing. From natural disasters to census spikes to contagions and pandemics, Fastaff proves to be the reliable partner for healthcare systems nationwide in urgent and crucial situations, sending experienced and high acuity nurses in ten days or less, and often in 24-48 hours.

As experts in crisis management, Fastaff and U.S. Nursing enacted a series of operational maneuvers in 2020 to ensure reliable delivery to clients fighting the coronavirus outbreak, amidst an out-of-control contagion, an avalanche of unknown facts, a crashing economy, and a 100% virtual work environment.With twice as many working nurses in 2020 than in an average year, Fastaff has been successfully provided experience nurses to COVID hot spots in over 400 facilities in 45 states and counting.

Throughout the coronavirus crisis, the company deployed more than 3,000 nurses to 400 facilities across 45 states, many in less than 24-48 hours, saving countless lives. The company also grew its full-time staff to nearly 220 from 125 in 2018.

In addition, the team built a leading technology program that allowed nurses to register and provide all professional documentation to get them travel ready within hours via their mobile phones. It was a huge time saver for the company and nurses, and created a touchless way to gather documents and get training/communications out to nurses. In 2020, 34,000 documents were uploaded with this method versus only 27,000 in 2019. That’s a lot more nurses into the field quickly at a time when it was needed most!

Frequently, hospital systems in extreme crisis will come to Fastaff AFTER their contracted partners and staffing agencies fail to meet their demand. It is not unusual that a competitor will work for weeks to fulfil an impending order only to be replaced by Fastaff within 24-48 hours of the deadline. This has been the case with clients in Northern California, Arizona, Florida and Texas as the pandemic surged through those southern states during the Fourth of July weekend in 2020. Fastaff rallied the troops, who chose to forgo their barbeques and commit to filling these critical orders within days over the holiday weekend.

In a year where many companies laid off employees, Fastaff saw over a 25% growth in both revenue and hiring. In the year prior, the company had seen over a 50% increase in revenue. In addition, the ability to quickly deploy thousands of nurses to critical hot spots throughout the pandemic resulted in many lives saved and a technology that will be used for years to come.