Nurse Turnover Costs $60,000 a Head. This Spokane Company Built the Fix
In this episode of the Cowles Ventures Podcast, Blake sits down with David Heath, founder of Lighthouse, to break down why hospitals still run nurse staffing off a shared Excel spreadsheet with 12 tabs, why turnover costs a hospital about $60,000 per nurse, and how AI is finally starting to fix a system that's stayed broken because too many vested interests benefit from it staying that way.
We talk about:
• Why the US spends double per capita on healthcare compared to any other nation and still gets worse outcomes
• How hospitals hire travel nurses 13 weeks in advance with almost no way to…
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