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Online Staffing Company SnapNurse Responds To Nurse Shortages In Multiple States

July 14th, 2021

States across the country, including Georgia, are currently experiencing a shortage of nurses.

According to the most recent data from the Bureau of Health Workforce, Georgia ranks the fifth-lowest in the country and has a little over 108,000 nurses, that’s roughly ten nurses per 1,000 people.

The growing national need for health care workers existed before the pandemic, but the global health crisis has exasperated the shortage.

SnapNurse is an Atlanta-based tech-enabled staffing platform that has been working to respond to the shortage.

On Wednesday’s edition of “Closer Look” Cherie Kloss, the founder and CEO for SnapMedTech, the parent company for SnapNurse, was a guest on the show.

She talked with show host Rose Scott about the history and vision of SnapNurse and the company’s response during the pandemic.

Kloss says that pre-pandemic, SnapNurse had roughly 25,000 workers, but that number has now grown to 170,000.

“What happened during the pandemic, a lot of people got furloughed from the hospitals,” explained Kloss. “And also, they were seeing a lot of the contract rates a lot higher than the hospitals they were, the current hospitals they were working at, so they wanted to try what we call travel nursing.”