I bet that caught your eye, it certainly did mine when I came across the headline on the Daily Miner website.

Apparently it seems that MedCath, a North Carolina based company; believes it can handle the US-wide shortage of trained nurses. This claim was made when the company revealed plans to build a hospital in the Kingsman area of Arizona.

Now before you go thinking that they have found a magic solution to what has given many a healthcare recruiter sleepless nights, their solution is to recruit heavily from their other hospitals around to US, with one of the enticements being that Kingman is a great place to live in.

That it itself might be true, I have never been to Kingman but I bet you many nurses would say the same things about the cities and towns that they work in, and unless you can really show an improvement in the quality of life, an advancement in their career or an increased pay packet, I serious doubt they would really overcome the nursing shortage that has gripped the US.

Also how do they replace the nurses they manage to convince to move to Kingman, I have a feeling it would be the same way as everybody else facing the same challenges to find skilled nurses.