I got a report today that Children's Medical Center of Dallas canceled all traveler contracts earlier this year (2017) because they are way over budget and have to somehow make up for a $30 million deficit. Just something to keep in mind if your agency / recruiter offers you a position here for year 2017.
This project is only 5 days old and already I have 72 reports of canceled contracts. This doesn't include the huge mass cancellation at O'Connor hospital in San Jose, California that cancelled over 20 travelers all at once because of an administration problem. I also heard that there was a large cancellation in Alaska that included around 15 travelers. If you do the math, that's 107 cancelled contracts for this year, that we know about. My estimate is the actual number of canceled contracts for year 2017 is 3-4 times that number. Because not all nurses are on Facebook and because not all nurses and recruiters participate in this project, I can't give an accurate number of actual cancellations, but I think my estimates are fair.
Please encourage all your healthcare travel friends and recruiters / agencies to report their canceled contracts to http://cancellationdatabase.com/cancellations/report , no matter how long ago it occurred. The more data we can collect, the easier it will be for us to determine what facilities are doing the most cancelling. We can then avoid those frequent contract cancelling facilities.
Today I was talking with someone that made a report and it made me realize that I'm seeing a pattern with these cancellations. Most of the people that gave me cancellation reports for "low census" told me there was no way they had low census because they were slammed , beds were filled and it just wasn't possible. So, my opinion is "low census" probably means financial problems, they hired staff to fill that position or they didn't like the traveler for whatever reasons.
I just wanted to put this out for everyone. I'm not sure what we can do to combat this as of now, but if you have ideas let us know.