“We are extremely excited to be part of the growing community of women-owned business and appreciative that our hospital and clinic partners see the value in diversity of their supplier base.” SAM! Farrell, CEO.

samstaff, founded in 2017 and based in historic Ybor City, has attracted over $1M in venture money, leading the way for Tampa Bay based women-owned businesses.

“We believe we can transform our industry by how we attract, engage and delight our employees and customers,” added Kris Ellis, samstaff President. “At samstaff, amazing people and a great culture are the differentiator. We believe talented, passionate and successful people are attracted to companies with great culture.”

WBENC’s national standard of certification implemented by the Women’s Business Enterprise by the Women’s Business Development Center – Council of Florida is a meticulous process including an in-depth review of the business and site inspection. The certification process is designed to confirm the business is at least 51% owned, operated and controlled by a woman or women.
samstaff…changing staffing, changing lives By including women-owned businesses among their suppliers, corporations and government agencies demonstrate their commitment to fostering diversity and the continued development of their supplier diversity programs. To learn more about samstaff, please visit www.samstaff.com.

About samstaff

With over 60 years of healthcare staffing experience, we’ve come together to create a company that leverages our passion and purpose to make an impact in healthcare. Our passionate, creative and talented employees are transforming the healthcare staffing industry. We value our employees and recognize and reward hard work. We are obsessive about creating great experiences for our clients and colleagues. We are changing the landscape of the revenue cycle healthcare staffing industry! For more information, visit www.samstaff.com

About WBENC

Founded in 1997, WBENC is the nation’s leader in women’s business development and the leading third-party certifier of businesses owned and operated by women, with more than 13,000 certified Women’s Business Enterprises, 14 national Regional Partner Organizations, and over 300 Corporate Members. More than 1,000 corporations representing America’s most prestigious brands as well as many states, cities, and other entities accept WBENC Certification. For more information, visit www.wbenc.org

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Creating SMART Goals

SMART goals are effective and achievable goals that will set yourself up for success.  To make a goal SMART, it needs to be…

S- Specific:  Be specific with your goal and include the 6 “W”s (who, what, when, where, which, why).

M- Measurable: Set milestones or steps needed to complete your goal.

A- Achievable: Goals are meant to inspire motivation, so is achieving your goal possible?

R- Realistic: Mainly with business goals.  Make it relevant with your profession to help your business and your career.

T- Time-Bound: there is no such thing as an impossible goal, just an impossible timeline! (if your goal has steps, make a timeline for each step).

By transforming your goals into SMART goals, you are one step closer to a successful and productive year!

Maintain your SMART Goals

As most of us know, creating goals is the easy part.  Sticking to them is a whole new story.  Sometimes our goals overwhelm us so we just give up on them, or we just lose track of them.  Fear not, here are some steps to ensure that you stay on track!

Step 1: First Create 5 SMART goals that you would like to complete in the next 2 years.  Make sure these goals cover all aspects of your life (career, financial, education, family, attitude, physical etc.).

Step 2: Look at your list and decide which of these would have the most positive impact on your life if it was completed in 24 hours.

Step 3: Post these goals somewhere you can see them daily.

Step 4: Work on your number 1 goal all the time!  Take turns working on your other 4 goals as needed.

According to author and business success Brian Tracy, if you work on your one major goal every day, you will find that you will feel more accomplished (Brian Tracy. 2016, May 10).  The reason for this is that your number one goal is usually the hardest to complete.  Most people throughout the year, spend most of their time working with the easier, less meaningful goals and find that after they do this, they do not feel that sense of accomplishment.

Brian Tracy, (2016, May 10). How to Set Goals: 80/20 Rule for Goal Setting | Brian Tracy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdiApKj3QPg 

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A recent Forbes article titled, The Importance of the Employee Feedback Loop, noted that the employee-manager relationship is consistently ranked as a top driver of employee satisfaction.  Samstaff believes strongly in assessing and constantly improving the employee experience.

To measure and assess be employee loyalty, samstaff conducts an annual colleague survey to obtain feedback from our employees.  In our most recent survey, 88% of the colleagues noted the effectiveness of their candidate advocate “listening and being responsive to their needs” above 4 on a scale of 1-5.   “First impressions were nothing but positive,” noted a recently placed colleague.

Another coding colleague who responded to the survey noted that “my candidate advocate was available on my schedule in the evenings and weekends to answer all my questions.”  85% percent of the respondents scored their overall experience with samstaff higher than a 4.5 on a scale of 1-5.  Several respondents commented that samstaff “feels like a family” and that they “cannot wait for their next assignment.”

Suggestions for improvement from the survey included creating a new assignment mentor program and additional enhancements to make the samstaff on-boarding process even smoother.

Extensive research is available to reinforce improved employee engagement enhances overall retention as well as increases growth and profitability for most organizations. The findings of a Forbes Insights and SilkRoad survey of 212 U.S.-based CFOs and financial executives reveal the fastest-growing firms put greater emphasis on understanding their employees and engaging them compared with slower-growing firms.  samstaff plans to continue to focus on employee engagement and changing the perspective of working for a staffing company by improving the employee experience.

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HIPAA’s Privacy Rule gives patients reasonably strong rights over their health information. Privacy among these is the right of examining and obtaining a copy of their health records.  Patients can also ask for corrections to be made.

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Y93.D- Activities involved arts and handcraft
If you’ve tried to make a Halloween costume, you know it is never as easy as you think it will be. Use this code for hot-glue-gun burns or scissor slices.

Y04.1- Assault by human bite
Parrots aren’t the only ones to watch out for this season. If a vampire or zombie takes their costume a bit too seriously, this code will record the chomp.

T78.01- Anaphylactic reaction due to peanuts
With a pillowcase full of fun-sized Snickers, who can eat just one? Some kids may be lucky enough to sleep it off with just a stomachache, but for a child with a peanut allergy, a trip to the ER will close out the holiday.

W22.02- Walked into a lamppost
Masks may terrify, but they do require a certain sacrifice of peripheral vision. With this blow to the senses, lampposts are more likely to sneak up on you.

A28.1- Cat-scratch disease
Halloween isn’t complete without a frightening feline or two. Superstition warns of them crossing your path, but some can’t resist a seemingly sweet ball of fluff. Trick-or-treaters who learn the hard way can earn bragging rights for this code.

W93.02- Inhalation of dry ice
Dry ice bubbling in a cauldron of punch is an oldie-but-goodie addition to any Halloween shindig. But if a goblin or ghoul spends too much time in the punch bowl, ICD-10 has just the code.

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