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Collaborative Efforts in Healthcare Staffing Solutions

The staffing challenges in the healthcare and nursing industries have reached a critical point, prompting key players to develop innovative solutions. Recently, Tsunagu Group Holdings, a company specializing in recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) and consulting, announced a partnership with Yukaria, a company that supports hospital management and nursing facility operations. Together, they will promote a circular recruitment system named "Almunia".

Understanding the Context

In Japan, a staggering labor demand gap of approximately 5 billion hours is predicted by 2030. In response, Tsunagu Group has identified the reemployment of experienced professionals through a circular recruitment model as a pivotal solution. Their recently developed system, "Almunia", focuses on leveraging alumni—previous employees—as valuable human resources, creating a specific pool of part-time and temporary staff that can be easily accessed by healthcare facilities.

The healthcare sector has increasingly relied on spot workers to address sudden staffing shortages, particularly in specialized roles. However, high training costs related to individual operations and equipment hinder facilities from quickly bringing these workers up to speed. To effectively address this issue, accumulating valuable talent and implementing a circular recruitment system is essential.

With Almunia, facilities can create a database of previously employed individuals, allowing the reemployment process to be seamless. This system significantly reduces educational costs and enhances the operational readiness of these workers.

Details of the Almunia System

The Almunia system is designed to maintain connections with former employees, enabling them to return to work on a day-to-day basis when a suitable opportunity arises. Rather than viewing employee departures as a loss of human capital, the system fosters long-term relationships between companies and individuals, allowing for the accumulation and circulation of talent. Companies can proactively engage potential candidates from the previous workforce using data from past employment.

Future Prospects

Looking ahead, the collaboration between Yukaria and Tsunagu Group aims to extend the implementation of the Almunia system throughout the healthcare sector. Their objective is to alleviate staffing shortages and develop a sustainable workforce model. Notably, there has already been an agreement for Almunia’s implementation in senior housing operated by Clutch Corporation, a subsidiary of Yukaria.

In existing collaborations, clients have reported a reduction of approximately 50% in annual staffing costs when translated into labor expenses. The healthcare sector is facing a growing need for swift replacements of highly specialized staff, so the partnership between Yukaria and Tsunagu Group aspires to generate successful case studies that contribute to alleviating the workload on frontline staff and establishing sustainable operational systems.

About Yukaria

Company Name: Yukaria Corporation (Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Securities Code: 286A)
Location: 19th Floor, Kasumigaseki Building, 3-2-5 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Representative: CEO Hideo Misawa
Business: Support for medical management, senior-related business, and high-end medical device operations.
Website: https://eucalia.jp/

Yukaria is committed to the vision of "industrialization of healthcare" and the mission of realizing the ideal state of medical care and nursing through transformation. They work alongside healthcare professionals to promote five transformational themes: 1) Separation of medical and economic aspects, 2) Optimization of hospital management, 3) Pursuit of patient-centered value-based healthcare (VBHC), 4) Community-inclusive models, and 5) Appropriate digital transformation (DX) at the operational level.

About Tsunagu Group Holdings

Company Name: Tsunagu Group Holdings (Tokyo Stock Exchange Standard Securities Code: 6551)
Location: 7th and 8th Floors of HULIC Ginza 7-chome Building, 7-3-5 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
Representative: CEO Mitsuhiro Yoneda
Business: Provides recruitment solutions (including consulting and outsourcing), labor dispatch services, and licensed job placement services. The group also formulates and manages business strategies related to these activities.
Website: https://tghd.co.jp/

With a focus on solving Japan's social issue of the 2030 labor demand gap, Tsunagu Group operates as a solution company leveraging consulting, RPO, and database services, providing a wide range of solutions to major corporations employing over 1,000 people.