Across the nation, the turnover statistics for healthcare professionals are staggering. An NSI Nursing Solutions report pegged last year’s hospital staff turnover rate at 18.3% and registered nurse turnover at 16.4%. In another report, published by healthcare analytics and solutions company Press Ganey, 29% of physicians and 28% of advanced practice providers (AAPs)—which includes nurse practitioners, certified registered nurse anesthetists, clinical nurse specialists and physician assistants—said they are thinking of leaving their organizations within the next three years.
One such organization is Cincinnati Children’s where the turnover rate for physicians is 3.8%, and for nurses, 9.3%—well below the average turnover rate at pediatric health systems, says Peter Adebi, chief human resources officer and senior vice president at the medical center. The organization’s retention rate, he adds, is just below 90%. “When people come here, they stay.”
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Lisa Dawson