ShiftMed has joined forces with Skilltrade to assist healthcare providers in resolving their ongoing staffing shortages by embedding the allied health training straight into ShiftMed’s labor platform. This partnership merges a workforce management system with AI- based educational programs that prepare certified healthcare workers for the most in-demand clinical positions.
Besides enabling hospitals and health systems to opt for short-term staffing strategies, the partnership aims at helping them develop sustainable talent pipelines over time. Using the integrated platform, healthcare organizations can accurately reveal workforce shortages and provide their current employees or new hires with training programs aimed at preparing them for allied health careers like medical assistants, surgical technologists, sterile processing technicians, and patient care technicians.
Skilltrade has designed its training method by integrating AI-personalized learning simulations with live teaching, certification readiness as well as hands-on lab situations that are oriented towards working adults. The program delivery can be made onsite, online, or hybrid, So providing healthcare organizations with multiple channels of nurturing their workers in development.
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“Healthcare organizations require more than immediate labor capacity; they need strategic solutions that architect a sustainable pipeline,” said Todd Walrath, CEO of ShiftMed. “By partnering with Skilltrade, we are giving our clients the ability to not only optimize the workforce they have today but to actively engineer the credentialed workforce they need to solve the workflow challenges of tomorrow.”
The collaboration also offers healthcare employers access to funding pathways, including apprenticeships, workforce grants, and employer-sponsored education programs. By combining staffing management with workforce education, the companies aim to reduce healthcare systems’ dependence on costly contract labor while improving retention and internal career mobility.
Jason Aubrey, CEO of Skilltrade, said the partnership is designed to simplify workforce development in an increasingly fragmented healthcare labor environment. “Our role is to simplify that complexity, bringing AI-enabled training, funding navigation, and workforce partnerships together into one coordinated solution. Partnering with ShiftMed allows us to deliver that value at scale.”
This announcement follows a larger trend among healthcare facilities that seek technological solutions to solve their persistent staffing problems. With hospital facilities struggling with staffing by credentialed workers, an integrated approach to the development of the workforce emerges as a critical solution.
