How to Solve Healthcare’s Staffing & Cost Crisis Fast

Healthcare leaders are currently facing significant challenges, including rising operational costs and severe staffing shortages, which jeopardize the quality of patient care.

In today’s healthcare environment, budget constraints, complex compliance requirements, and outdated technology burden both administration and staff.

With decades of global experience, Deel addresses these issues by streamlining workforce management, automating HR functions, and ensuring ongoing regulatory compliance.

This article discusses how healthcare organizations can leverage Deel’s all-in-one platform to simplify hiring, reduce costs, and confidently meet evolving compliance standards.

By integrating flexible staffing solutions and robust data security, Deel helps healthcare providers improve employee well-being and operational efficiency.

1. Improve healthcare staff well-being with remote worker strategies

According to a Deloitte study, many healthcare workers feel overstretched and overworked. Specifically, 46% report negative impacts of an increased workload on their physical health and 57% on their mental well-being. As a result, over half are considering transitioning to part-time roles.

Deel can directly address this challenge. It enables the strategic deployment of remote workers, reducing the workload on on-site staff and allowing flexible self-rostering options.

You can use remote workers for functions such as:

• Telemedicine consultations
• Remote patient monitoring
• Appointment booking
• Case management

Deel’s global people platform supports a remote workforce by enabling compliant hiring in foreign countries and jurisdictions. With Deel, you can easily hire and onboard remote workers, including international contractors, without setting up legal entities or risking misclassification.

You can also manage payroll, track time off and expenses, and offboard workers without increasing your administrative burden.

Additionally, using Deel for remote staffing offers the flexibility to scale your healthcare workforce up or down based on seasonal demands. It allows your healthcare organization to adjust staffing levels without the direct responsibility of hiring and terminating remote workers.

Discover how health sciences company Prenetics compliantly hires specialty talent wherever they go with Deel.

See also: 2025 Guide On Hiring And Managing Remote Workers

2. Address compliance demands proactively and with confidence

Healthcare organizations must keep up with a multitude of local, state, and federal employment regulations. It’s an added demand on available resources that diverts attention from direct patient care.

While following these regulations can be stressful, doing so ensures you meet legal requirements and gives you peace of mind. It also protects employee rights and fosters trust and integrity within the healthcare organization.

Deel offers always-on compliance to keep your hiring and workforce management practices aligned with regulations. We handle all the complexities of employment laws, including contracts, terminations, taxes, and leave and overtime policies.

To simplify compliance further, Deel’s Compliance Hub updates you on changes in local labor laws affecting your organization. It also guides you in correct worker classification.

A team of legal experts is available to address your compliance questions and concerns. They ensure that your employment practices consistently align with current laws.

Discover how Us2.ai, a health tech startup, easily manages complex statutory requirements across the US, EU, and ANZ regions, avoiding costly compliance expenses while expanding globally with Deel.

See also: The Enterprise Guide to Global Compliance Management in 2024

3. Resolve staffing shortages and recruitment challenges

According to a 2024 NSI report, hospital turnover in the US reached 20.7% in 2023. Additionally, nearly half (47.8%) of hospitals reported a vacancy rate for registered nurses exceeding 10%.

Demand outpaces supply in the healthcare labor market, making it particularly challenging to find qualified professionals in rural areas. This gap affects the quality of patient care and healthcare organizations' performance.

Deel can enhance your hiring strategy by tapping into a global talent pool. It empowers you to recruit and onboard highly qualified healthcare professionals regardless of their location.

We also support relocations through our Immigration service, you can compliantly hire expat talent from over 40 countries.

Our immigration experts handle the ongoing visa process for you, offering a hands-off approach that creates a frictionless experience for both you and your new hires.

Moreover, to ensure that labor shortages do not compromise quality, Deel implements strict background checks during onboarding. It reduces the risk of hiring unqualified or unlicensed healthcare professionals.

Learn how Eucalyptus, a healthcare technology company, successfully hired from the German, Philippines, and South African labor markets. They achieved this while saving between 5 and 10% in costs.

See also: The Value of Expat Employees for Your Global Team

4. Retain talent by enhancing the employee experience

While finding talent in the healthcare industry is already a major challenge, retaining it has also become increasingly difficult.

High turnover in the healthcare industry has significant financial consequences. According to the 2024 NSI report, replacing a bedside registered nurse in the US costs an average of $56,300. It causes the average hospital to lose between $3.9 million and $5.8 million.

Deel helps you create a positive work environment that enhances the employee experience in several ways:

• Fast and effective onboarding prepares workers for success in their new role
• Salary research tools, such as Salary Insights and Global Benefits, help you offer fair and competitive compensation packages
• The self-serve platform lets employees manage their personal information, access payslips, and request time off. All of this is available from a user-friendly dashboard
• Efficient and flexible processing of payroll, taxes, and benefits. It ensures employees receive accurate, timely payments in their preferred method and currency
• Slack plugins enhance communication and foster a listening culture, building employee trust

Discover how Prenetics, a health sciences company, uses Deel to deliver a positive employee experience from day one.

See also: How Staffing Agencies Can Guarantee a Good Employee Experience With an EOR

5. Upskill workers through training and development

The healthcare industry constantly faces rapid innovations in medical technology, treatment protocols, and healthcare delivery systems. Healthcare organizations must continuously invest in employee training to incorporate these advancements into daily operations. It’s a task that requires significant resources.

Failure to keep up may result in outdated practices. These can jeopardize patient outcomes and the organization’s reputation and competitiveness.

With Deel, you get Deel Engage, an AI-powered people suite to manage development, performance, and training programs so you can effectively retrain and upskill existing staff. Features include:

• Learning management: Build, manage, and track engaging training courses in minutes with our AI-powered learning management system
• Performance management: Facilitate comprehensive feedback, from 360° reviews to custom processes, ensure bias-free performance appraisals, and use OKRs and other goals for consistent team advancement
• Career management: Promote role clarity and motivation by giving your people a transparent path forward with competency-based career progression frameworks. Save months of tedious work thanks to AI
• Plugins: Reduce context-switching and supercharge connections with seamless Slack HR plugins, including PTO, kudos, referrals, org charts, and more
• Surveys: Surveys let you collect employee feedback on things like career development and remote relationships, so you can boost sentiments with targeted action plans

Beyond keeping up with industry advancements, investing in employees’ career development keeps them at the forefront of the industry. It fosters a culture of excellence.

See also: Reskilling and Upskilling Initiatives in Global Workforce Development

6. Manage rising operational costs

Price increases for medical equipment, supplies, facilities, and utilities strain healthcare budgets and have a knock-on effect on the price inflation of goods and services. In addition, complex and inadequate reimbursement procedures from government agencies and insurance providers worsen the situation.

Rising prices have made healthcare organizations struggle to provide affordable, high-quality care while ensuring long-term stability.

To address these financial pressures, Deel automates and integrates essential functions like HR, payroll, compliance, and contractor management into a single platform. This approach reduces administrative overhead and leverages economies of scale.

It enhances operational efficiency and helps your healthcare organization optimize its resources more effectively.

Discover how Paperform has saved 104 days worth of HR costs annually through Deel.

See also: How to Reduce Payroll Costs as a Global Team

7. Create effective data exchange through tech integration

Adopting new technologies is essential for healthcare organizations to stay current and competitive. However, integrating these innovations with existing healthcare systems can pose challenges.

Compatibility issues between new and legacy systems can lead to data silos, inefficient workflows, and increased risk of errors.

Achieving interoperability, where all systems work together smoothly, ensures that the technology you adopt enhances instead of disrupts operations.

Deel addresses these challenges with its powerful integration capabilities. By supporting custom APIs, Deel allows for seamless integration with tools like accounting, expense management, and time tracking. It ensures smooth data exchange within your existing infrastructure.

This unified system delivers comprehensive and up-to-date data. It enables you to make informed decisions on workforce planning, benefits administration, and employee development.

See also: Best Workforce Insights Software for Global Employment Law Compliance

8. Mitigate cybersecurity risks

Data protection is a critical legal obligation in healthcare, enforced by regulations like HIPAA. These regulations ensure the security and privacy of sensitive information.

Besides, health systems are attractive targets for hackers. They hold valuable personal and financial data, often have weak security measures, and can cause major disruptions if attacked.

Deel’s platform adheres to the highest global security standards, ensuring full data protection and privacy. It enables your organization to consistently comply with patient data protection requirements, including:

• HIPAA: Compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act for safeguarding patient health information
• ISO 27001: Follows the international standard for information security management systems
• GDPR: Conforms to the General Data Protection Regulation for data protection and privacy in the European Union
• SOC 2: Meets standards for data security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy
• CCPA: Complies with the California Consumer Privacy Act to protect personal data and ensure the privacy rights of California residents

See also: Data Privacy Compliance: Best Practices for Global Teams

Lead the Future of Healthcare: Solve Your Biggest Challenges with Deel

Workforce management challenges, technological issues like cybersecurity threats and system incompatibilities, and complex compliance requirements heavily burden the healthcare sector.

While it’s a lot to handle, Deel, paired with the right strategies, can turn them into growth opportunities. Here’s how:

• Expand your talent search globally: Use Deel to hire and manage remote workers and contractors or facilitate their relocation
• Streamline compliance: Ensure compliance with local tax and labor laws by delegating this task to Deel
• Enhance the employee experience: Use Deel to offer attractive compensation, timely payments, self-serve platforms, communication tools, and personalized training and development
• Automate HR functions: Leverage Deel to consolidate and automate HR tasks for greater efficiency and cost savings
• Create smooth data flow: Integrate Deel with existing software for easy data exchange while ensuring strong data security.

Try Deel. Book a demo to witness how it can address the unique challenges facing your healthcare organization.