Last week saw a big announcement in the world of healthcare acquisitions as IntelyCare, a nurse-founded healthcare talent platform, reached an agreement to acquire CareRev, an on-demand acute care workforce platform. Both companies have consistently demonstrated the benefit of empowering healthcare professionals as partners in addressing nationwide staffing demands for high quality patient care.
The joining of these two teams expands the reach of their flexible, tech-forward staffing models, creating accessibility across the care spectrum for better nursing professional coverage. Unlike other healthcare mergers and acquisitions, this development opens doors for the increasing number of professionals seeking flexibility alongside sustainable career growth — all while offering organizations a dependable and long-term staffing solution.
IntelyCare and CareRev Create an Innovative Synergy
Today’s healthcare landscape faces a number of challenges. The nationwide nursing shortage receives routine press coverage, but the rates of nursing burnout and attrition demand equal attention. IntelyCare and CareRev are both known for addressing the former without forgetting (or ignoring) the latter. Their staffing solutions promise coverage, while addressing the elements of greater work-life balance that protect clinician wellbeing.
As platforms dedicated to empowering healthcare professionals with the ability to design their own optimal workforce situation, IntelyCare and CareRev will continue to prioritize their clinician-centered approach. By combining their efforts to care for the nation’s caregivers, these two brands are even more equipped to empower clinicians to perform at the highest levels, delivering safety assurances and win-win solutions for clinicians, facilities, and the patients they serve.
This combined synergy will support an even wider range of facilities with per diem, contract, travel, part-time, and full-time needs across a wider geographic area. Healthcare settings positioned to benefit include:
- Assisted Living
- Skilled Nursing
- Rehabilitation Centers
- Long-Term Acute Care
- Acute Care
What Does This All Mean for Nursing Professionals? A Nurse’s Perspective
Helping others is what drives most nursing professionals to seek the knowledge, licensure, and accreditation required to provide therapeutic support for those who need it most. But this dedication shouldn’t come at the expense of their personal obligations and goals. IntelyCare offers that balance, supporting the staff members who so readily save the lives of others, with the resources and flexibility needed to live their own best lives.
The IntelyCare-CareRev agreement heightens and highlights this commitment by allowing more nurses to achieve greater balance and autonomy. Now, a new parent doesn’t have to compromise their professional fulfillment as a med-surg nurse to escape the added burden of nationwide childcare scarcities. With the support of a system that allows clinicians to balance their professional and personal commitments, there’s no need to sacrifice one for the other.
“As a single mother, I have to make sure I can support my kids financially and still be there for them without worrying about my work schedule. IntelyCare has been able to give me that.”
With greater geographical scope, the professionals who find joy in caring for long-term residents can maintain those valued care connections while still maximizing the hobbies that help them show up for some of the country’s most vulnerable patients. Whether it’s new possibilities in a ski town, beachside destination, or simply the capacity to align with a loved one’s location-dependent job, those caregivers can recharge in whatever capacity (and area) suits them best.
“I have total autonomy with my schedule; I can stack shifts to open up time for school, or slow things down when life outside of work needs my attention.”
IntelyCare’s nurse founders began the process of developing a far-reaching staffing solution informed by those on the frontlines of healthcare. Going forward with CareRev, these perspectives will broaden and diversify alongside organizational growth, contributing to the insights that create positive, persistent change.
Forward-Thinking Collaboration
To maintain the highest level of continuity, IntelyCare and CareRev will continue to operate under the brands and services that customers and clinicians recognize and value. Combining forces extends each company’s strengths and reach, which you can read more about below.
About IntelyCare
For over a decade, IntelyCare has been enabling healthcare facilities to create the optimal workforce coverage and mix while empowering nurses with the ability to construct their ideal working situation. This model has quickly become an industry-leading framework and one of the most comprehensive healthcare talent platforms. With an approach that prioritizes balance over burnout, IntelyCare is helping overcome the healthcare labor crisis by building a sustainable system that optimizes outcomes for staff and patients alike. For more information, visit https://www.intelycare.com/ or follow IntelyCare on LinkedIn.
About CareRev
CareRev is an on-demand workforce platform designed to supplement acute care staffing needs. It offers access to more than 35,000 (and gaining) high-quality healthcare professionals. These clinicians enjoy the autonomy to define their own work-life balance through self-determined schedules while improving the care delivery and workflow across hundreds of partnered facilities. Learn more at www.carerev.com or follow CareRev on LinkedIn.
IntelyCare writer Rachel Schmidt, MA, BSN, RN lives in Alexandria, Va.