For over a decade, HWL has partnered with hundreds of leading healthcare systems nationwide to solve one of their most pressing challenges: workforce management. Through our integrated MSP and VMS solutions, we’ve helped hospitals and other healthcare providers streamline contingent labor, reduce costs, ensure compliance, and maintain operational excellence—even in the most complex environments.
Our mission has always been clear: empower organizations with visibility, control, and confidence in their workforce strategy. In healthcare, that mission has delivered measurable impact. Now, we’re bringing that same expertise to education—because the challenges schools face today mirror those we’ve solved in healthcare.
Why Education, Why Now?
The parallels are undeniable.
- Community impact: Like hospitals, school districts play a vital role both as an employer and a service provider to the community at large.
- Financial strain: School districts, like hospitals, face financial challenges as enrollment and federal reimbursement changes continue to evolve.
- Staff shortages: From classrooms to special education, districts struggle to fill critical roles.
- Compliance risk: Unfilled positions jeopardize IDEA requirements and student outcomes.
- Reliance on external vendors: Contracting with multiple staffing vendors is required to meet staffing demands in healthcare and educational environments.
These challenges facing school districts are the same structural issues healthcare faces. And we know how to fix them.
What Healthcare Taught Us
Our success in healthcare wasn’t filling shifts; it was building systems. Systems that:
- Consolidate vendor relationships and contracts to standardize terms, rates, and performance measures.
- Leverage easy to use technology to streamline processes which reduces administrative burden.
- Provide custom account support to remove many of the tedious tasks from staff that are already overworked
- Deliver real-time rate benchmarks and analytics for proactive decision-making which delivers hard dollar savings.
- Automate credentialing and compliance management and tracking to eliminate risk.
- Simplify timekeeping and invoicing using mobile apps and consolidated invoices.
- Improve fill rates and time to fill through automated workflows delivering critical staff at the right time.
These strategies aren’t industry specific. They’re universal. And school districts can benefit from these learnings.
Introducing HWL Education
We’re not repurposing a healthcare solution. We’ve built the first MSP/VMS platform designed for K-12. One partner. One platform. Complete transparency. Automated compliance. Real-time workforce insights.
For superintendents, CFOs, CHROs, and special education directors, this means:
- Strategic oversight of contingent labor.
- Meeting student and community staffing demands
- Clear visibility into costs and ROI.
- Access to pre-vetted talent when it matters most.
- Operational efficiency that makes board meetings easier.
The Stakes Are High—and Rising
Teacher shortages, substitute gaps, and special education staffing crises aren’t slowing down. Manual processes and fragmented vendor relationships will only deepen the problem. Districts need a new approach—one proven to work in a complex, regulated environment.
That’s why HWL is entering education now. Because the challenges are urgent, and we have solutions that deliver.
Ready to transform your district’s workforce strategy?
We’ve done it for healthcare. We can do it for education. Let’s talk.