Trinity Health rethinks 'float pools of old'

When Trinity Health created its FirstChoice internal staffing agency, it wanted to offer employees, including nurses and other clinicians, greater flexibility to serve in short- and long-term roles in locations across the Livonia, Mich.-based system. The goal, as Gay Landstrom, PhD, RN, senior vice president and chief nursing officer, described it, was “to build it very differently than float pools of old.”