Inform us about Coast Medical Service! How did you come to be?
Coast is a Los Angeles-based household enterprise (forty years sturdy!) targeted on healthcare staffing. Entrepreneur Christine Gregory began Coast in 1979 with the objective of enhancing total affected person care by connecting like-minded nurses with first-class hospitals. Coast operated out of the household house till 2011, at which level Christine’s son, Kenny Kadar, took over the day-to-day operations. Having grown up with the enterprise (in spite of everything, the headquarters was positioned in his childhood house), he continued with Coast’s mission to ship the best high quality of service, making it attainable for healthcare suppliers to essentially give attention to their sufferers. Coast really listens and treats nurses and purchasers like household as a result of, effectively, they’re. Additional Coast has been Joint Fee-certified since 2012 and upholds the best trade requirements. Because of this, Coast has grown 20x since 2011 and was honored on the Inc 5000 Quickest Rising Corporations in America and Los Angeles Enterprise Journal Quickest Rising Corporations in LA for the final three years in a row!
Coast is guided by our core values: High quality, Alternative, Integrity, Service, and Teamwork.
What ought to vacationers find out about Coast Medical Service?
At Coast, we genuinely care about your success. We provide personalised consideration, time and care (24/7!) and delight ourselves on constructing mutually useful relationships with our nurses and purchasers. We hearken to what you need and work collectively to seek out the precise alternatives that match your wants, be it journey or per diem assignments, at all kinds of hospitals and care services. Everytime you want us, we’re actually a telephone name away, day or evening. If vacationers need assistance with transportation, lodging or simply wants an ear to speak to, we’re there.
Compensation is all the time top-notch and advantages embrace paid sick time, well being advantages and different reimbursements to maximise allowable non-taxable stipends. For vacationers, we’ll match any supply on the similar facility, to present you peace of thoughts that you’re receiving the most effective compensation obtainable. Additional, we have now a beneficiant bonus program to supply extra incentives to nurses.
Under is a breakdown of our present bonus choices:
- Interview Bonus – $50
- Signal-on Bonus – $250
- Completion Bonus – $750
- Referral Bonus – $500
We imagine in freedom of selection and transparency; when and the place you’re employed is totally as much as you. We perceive that selecting a journey nursing supplier is a giant choice, and nurses don’t all the time really feel “within the know” in the case of the main points of their submission standing, compliance paperwork, or first-day particulars. We make sure that our vacationers by no means have any unanswered questions. And if they’re interested in one thing we don’t have a solution to, we work to get them a solution immediately. Usually occasions the traveler is leaving their hometown or heading to a brand new place so we would like them to really feel assured of their plan and perceive precisely what lies forward. Our objective is to earn your belief and help in each interplay, daily.
What we don’t do? Make guarantees we will’t hold. We’ll by no means attempt to “laborious promote” you or persuade you to do one thing you don’t need to do. We additionally don’t work with simply anybody. Each nurse and shopper is extremely vetted in order that your expertise is first-class.
What’s the group tradition like at Coast Medical Service?
Coast has a household surroundings the place we work collectively as a group to enhance healthcare. Everybody pitches in and is valued at Coast.
We’re consistently evolving and seeking to enhance. In 2019, we upgraded our staffing software program to enhance our means to effectively and precisely verify assignments. We additionally rolled out enhancements to our compensation bundle together with sick pay, improved well being advantages, and extra reimbursements.
We need to proceed to enhance; our nurses and purchasers suggestions assist drive future enhancements. If you need us to do one thing higher, tell us! We are going to pay attention and implement modifications!
How does the management at Coast Medical Service outline success for the staff in addition to success for the vacationers?
Success to us means there may be collaboration and transparency between the traveler, healthcare facility and Coast to create relationships the place all of us win.
For instance: The traveler will get an task with the specified location, unit, timing, and compensation. The ability is ready to enhance affected person care with the addition of a top quality clinician. The sufferers obtain the high-level care that they deserve! And Coast company employees will get the satisfaction of realizing that we fulfilled our mission to allow healthcare suppliers to give attention to sufferers.
What are the hopes for the Coast/Wanderly partnership in 2020/2021? How can we proceed to greatest help one another?
We’re very enthusiastic about partnering with Wanderly! We’re all about mutually useful relationships and would need a partnership that improves Wanderly, Coast and the expertise for the traveler.
We hope that Wanderly will facilitate connections with vacationers in order that we may help them obtain their targets. We wish for a few of these vacationers to like our service a lot that they turn out to be ambassadors for Coast within the journey universe.
What myths in regards to the journey healthcare trade would Coast Medical Service need to right for somebody contemplating taking an task?
General, there may be way more transparency within the journey healthcare trade than ever earlier than. Wanderly has actually contributed positively in the direction of that transparency. Nonetheless, it seems like there might be extra collaboration and cohesion between services, vacationers and businesses to raised service sufferers.
Being a traveler is a difficult profession selection and we’re right here to help the traveler, not add to their stress load. We hear tales of vacationers being supplied with deceptive info, inaccurate funds and handled with a scarcity of empathy.
Coast is an company that fosters mutually useful relationships. We worth our vacationers and services and genuinely attempt so as to add worth to each. We’re trustworthy, supportive and collaborative in {our relationships} which helps cut back the stress on the traveler and permits them to raised give attention to sufferers.
What provides the group at Coast Medical Service the sensation of objective within the day-to-day?
Serving to folks. Every part we do is guided by our objective of serving to our nurses and hospitals, who, in flip, can higher assist sufferers.
What are the plans for the longer term? What’s deliberate for 2020?
We need to proceed to enhance so as to add extra worth for our vacationers, services and company group in 2020. That begins with understanding our vacationers to fulfill their wants, together with:
- Enhance the vary of journey choices, together with extra models and geographies
- Refine and improve compensation packages
- Enhance processes to make for a extra environment friendly and satisfying expertise for our vacationers
- Extra firm celebrations and get-togethers
We need to get much more suggestions from our vacationers as that suggestions will inform the extra enhancements we make in 2020 and past!
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