Sutter Health Expands Recruitsoft Deployment

Sacramento-Based Health Care Network Expands Use of Recruitsoft's Leading Recruiting Solution to Reengineer and Power its Recruiting Process

Sutter Health, Northern California's leading non-profit provider of health care services and programs, today announced that it has expanded its deployment of Recruitsoft’s Recruiter WebTop™ solution to speed and facilitate recruiting for its hospitals and care centers. Sutter Health has hospitals and care centers in more than 100 Northern California communities; more than two-dozen acute care hospitals; physician training programs, medical research facilities, region-wide home health, hospice and occupational health networks; and long term care centers. Sutter's hospitals and care centers employ more than 40,000 people.

Sutter Health’s system office, and Sutter Ambulatory Care, both in the Sacramento area, began using Recruitsoft in July of this year. According to Keith L. Vencel, Product Manager--Employment, "Our organization is looking to reduce the cycle time per hire, the cost-per-hire and increase the quality of new hires for retention purposes." Sutter Health has expanded its use of this technology solution for employment and recruiting into the following hospitals and care centers within the Sacramento Metro Area and Northern California markets:

Sutter Health Home Office, Sacramento and San Francisco
Sutter Health Ambulatory Care, Sacramento and San Francisco
Sutter Health Central, Sacramento, CA
Sutter Oaks Midtown, Sacramento, CA
Sutter Center for Psychiatry, Sacramento, CA
Sutter Senior Care, Sacramento, CA
Sutter Medical Center – Sacramento, CA
Sutter Medical Foundation, Sacramento, CA
Sutter Roseville Medical Center, Roseville, CA
Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital, Auburn, CA
Sutter Tracy Community Hospital, Tracy, CA
Sutter Maternity & Surgery Center of Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa, Santa Rosa, CA
Sutter Davis Hospital, Davis, CA
Sutter North Medical Foundation, Marysville, CA
Sutter Lakeside Hospital, Lakeport, CA

"Through our relationship with Recruitsoft, Sutter Health will continuously improve the recruitment process throughout our network of hospitals and care centers within Northern California. This product will help place Sutter Health on the leading edge of employment and recruitment in the marketplace," said Keith L. Vencel.

"Our goal is to streamline our employment process, exercise economy of scales for purchases, and to develop a database for future career opportunities," said Ken Buback, Sutter Health’s Vice-President of Human Resources.

Sutter Health will have a majority of the hospital and care centers using the Recruitsoft technology solution prior to the end of 2000 and the remaining facilities will be active during 2001.

Guy Gauvin, Recruitsoft vice president of client services, said, "Sutter Health is a visionary in the area of health-care recruiting. Sutter’s specialized skills requirements are ideally suited to benefit from Recruiter WebTop’s skills-based screening approach and our ACE recruiting methodology."

About Sutter Health
One of the nation's leading non-profit networks of community health care services, Sutter Health (www.sutterhealth.org) serves more than three million people throughout Northern California, from the Oregon border to the San Joaquin Valley, and from the Pacific coast to the Sierra foothills.

Sutter medical centers care for more inpatients than any other network in Northern California, and lead the market in infant deliveries, neonatology, orthopedics, pediatrics and cancer care services. Sutter Health has care centers in more than 100 Northern California communities; more than two-dozen acute care hospitals; physician training programs, medical research facilities, region-wide home health, hospice and occupational health networks; and long term care centers. Sutter's hospitals and care centers have relationships with approximately 5,000 physicians and employ more than 40,000 people. Candidates are encouraged to apply online with Sutter at http://www.sutterhealth.org.

About Recruitsoft
Recruitsoft delivers the most complete online recruiting solutions for leading companies across many industries. Clients include Hewlett-Packard, Dow Chemical, MetLife, Bombardier Aerospace and Transportation (TSE: BBD.B), Cabletron Systems (NYSE: CS), and Sutter Health. The company’s Recruiter WebTop™ application service provides a complete business application over the Internet to power the career Web pages of large corporations, leading to faster time-to-hire, lower cost-per-hire, and ultimately, increased quality of hires. Recruitsoft introduced the pay-per-hire fee structure to the web-based recruiting industry and is considered to be the best-practice ASP for recruitment management solutions, based on its proprietary ACE Recruiting™ methodology, which re-engineers and streamlines the corporate recruiting process. Recruitsoft recently announced several alliances through which it became the first HMS to integrate all areas of candidate sourcing. These services are accessible via one-click and include: job postings on the corporate Web site, the company Intranet, job boards, advertising in all print media and, importantly, contract-assisted candidate sourcing.

Recruitsoft is the parent company of iLogos Research, which studies and monitors trends in the Internet recruiting industry. iLogos periodically publishes reports and indexes and is dedicated to understanding the needs of large corporations seeking qualified talent.

Recruitsoft is funded in part by Telesystem Software Ventures LP (Telsoft), a venture-capital arm of Telesystem Ltd., a Red Herring Top 100 company; and by Omnicom (NYSE:OMC), the world’s leading provider of marketing communications and advertising services, through its Internet investment arm, Communicade.

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