How Hospitals Are Cutting the $24B Agency Labor Bill: AI Predictive Staffing and Internal Talent Reactivation in Action
U.S. hospitals spend more than $24 billion a year on agency labor. Here's how Ascension Health, Cleveland Clinic, and others are cutting contract-labor dependency by 15–18% using AI predictive staffing and internal talent pool mining — and what it means for workforce planning leaders in 2026.