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yeah Going back to the staffing model you were talking about, Thrasa sent me a little video about it actually this morning.

I didn't even hear about it.

But there is a facility on the East Coast that's getting a lot of publicity right now because they're planning to roll out a staffing model called BidCity.

staffing.

And the way that it sounds like it's modeled is that a nurse will sign up for a shift and it will be at a premium pay above their base rate.

And then other people can sign up for the same shift and bid like lower amounts going down.

So there's been a couple of different perspectives that I found.

One is like very sensational.

And they're basically saying that they're They're going to let people keep bidding until they get the lowest bidder.

And then they're going to take that nurse and say, oh, we're going to take the cheapest version.

I've also looked into like what the facility's perspective was.

And their perspective was that they were trying to entice people to sign up earlier and entice them to sign up for shifts that are undesirable.

It'll be interesting to see if they do actually go forward with it because I'm wondering if they'll pull back because they're getting so much negativity.

How's that actually going to work? And you said before we started recording that you've heard of those concepts and you have some opinions about them.

And I wonder, please tell us what your thoughts are about

that.

What I like about them is that individual nurses are putting their own value on their time.

They're saying, I'm going to work for...

this so the individual this much so they're putting there's so the nurse is saying I'm willing to do it for this and other nurses might say I'm willing to do it for this and others for this but there are so many dynamics that go into staffing and We've talked about here is how sometimes we escalate our staffing, our vacancies or where there's where there's gaps in staffing is you start out offering here and then pretty soon you're offering here and then you're offering here.

And then at the last minute, we're like, oh, my God, we got to do this.

Whereas if we could offer something higher sooner, we wouldn't go into the scrambling at the last minute to fill a need.

And so this concept, I think, could potentially allow us not to get into the firefighting mode as much and potentially put patients at risk.

I mean, ultimately, we're here to take care of the patients.

So it's an interesting, I think, solution.

It'll be really interesting to see how it plays out because there are so many dynamics involved.