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Broadlane Launches Prolucent Workforce Management to Help Hospitals Navigate Aging Baby Boomer Demographics

Through Prolucent, Broadlane is furthering its commitment to, and investment in, building the industry's only comprehensive workforce staffing solution. Prolucent provides cutting-edge technologies and services to enable hospitals to optimize the deployment of permanent and temporary clinical staff. Prolucent plans to grow organically, through key partnerships, and strategic transactions.

"We are making a significant investment in Prolucent because healthcare staffing has reached an inflection point driven by retiring nurses, mandated staffing ratios, and the reality that aging Baby Boomers will strain America's healthcare system beyond its current capabilities," said Broadlane Chairman and CEO Patrick Ryan. "With Prolucent as a dedicated workforce management offering, we are reinforcing and deepening our commitment to helping hospitals address clinical staffing needs through best practices."

Prolucent estimates that 2 million nurses will need to enter the healthcare system by 2020 to meet patient demand and replace experienced nurses who will retire during this decade.

"Unprecedented demand and turnover of nurses, physicians and allied health professionals looms large on healthcare's horizon, and it will drive providers to optimize their clinical resources like never before to deliver high-quality patient care," said Prolucent Senior Vice President Jeff Ondeck. "Prolucent is already working with more than 1,000 hospitals and staffing agencies to deliver innovative workforce management solutions, and we look forward to partnering with many more providers to navigate the challenges ahead."

Key components of Prolucent's workforce management approach include:

• Vendor Management System (VMS) Technology: Prolucent's Web-based VMS software enables healthcare providers to promote agency staff quality, vendor service levels, and contract compliance through online real-time management of requisition, fulfillment, credential management, time tracking, payments, and reporting of agency staff.
• Web-based Staff Scheduling Technology: Prolucent's scheduling platform is an entirely Web-based scheduling application that requires minimal IT investment and is based on intuitive calendar-based schedules, drag-and-drop functionality and browser-based navigation.
• Agency Management Services: To best understand unique local labor challenges and deliver the most impactful results possible to clients, Prolucent account managers live and work in local markets rather than a centralized location.
• Agency Strategic Sourcing Services: Prolucent's broad agency contract portfolio includes hundreds of staffing agencies throughout the U.S. and delivers clients better pricing and service levels based on the aggregated purchasing power of Prolucent's client base.

Visit Prolucent at Booth #834 at AONE's 43rd Annual Meeting and Exposition

For a demonstration of Prolucent's Web-based technologies, or to find out more about Prolucent's services, please visit Prolucent at Booth #834 during The American Organization of Nurse Executives' (AONE) 43rd Annual Meeting and Exposition in Indianapolis, April 9 - 13. Several Prolucent representatives will be available including Senior Vice President and Founder Jeff Ondeck. Or for more information about Prolucent, please call 877-622-1797 or visit www.prolucent.com.

About Prolucent Workforce Management

Prolucent Workforce Management serves more than 1,000 acute-care hospitals and staffing agencies. Prolucent offers the industry's leading, end-to-end technology solution, along with related services to enable healthcare providers to optimize the deployment of their internal and external clinical workforce. Prolucent partners with hospitals to deploy custom workforce management solutions consisting of four optional components: Web-based vendor management system (VMS) technology, Web-based staff scheduling technology, agency management services and strategic agency sourcing services.

The company is headquartered in Dallas with regional market management offices across the United States. For more information, visit www.prolucent.com.

Broadlane, Inc.
Tony Katsulos, 877-604-2306
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