ACCELERATED DEVELOPMENT
Northern Health
Closing the resourcing gap in BC’s healthcare industry is critical. Northern Health is solving this problem with a new online recruitment tool and experience designed for users on the go.
Project Highlights
About Northern Health
Northern Health covers an area of nearly 600,000 square kilometres and offers healthcare services to more than 80,000 people through its facilities in over two dozen communities.
Solving Rural Healthcare Staffing: Northern Health's Digital Solution
One challenge of serving such a vast geography is filling vacant healthcare jobs in rural areas. Staffing shortages plague the industry, but Northern Health is determined to find a solution to recruitment woes by creating a new website dedicated to showcasing the benefits of working in the region.
Attracting qualified candidates is a struggle in any industry, but Northern Health had a clear vision of what they wanted in a virtual offering that could get the job done.
- A user-friendly digital experience
- Engaging testimonials
- Community spotlights
- A career centre to highlight job openings
As a long-term client of Acro Commerce, Northern Health presented this recruitment website concept on a very tight timeline.
Northern Health’s Human Resources department was eager to fill job vacancies to serve northern BC residents better. The project only had twelve weeks to go from ideation to launch, a feat very few agency partnerships can accomplish while satisfying all stakeholders’ needs.
Fast-Tracked Recruitment: Beating Budget & Time Constraints
Budget constraints, demands for new hires and a looming province-wide recruiting campaign on the calendar all put pressure on the Acro Commerce and Northern Health teams to deliver a finished website as quickly as possible.
Without this tool, Northern Health, like many healthcare agencies around the globe, faced recruiting challenges, ultimately increasing patient wait times for care and diagnosis.
As the speed of development is a critical indicator of success, we worked with Northern Health to plan, develop, and launch the new site using Drupal, a technology they were already very familiar with.
Shortening Time-to-Value: Northern Health's Agile Website Solution
Adopting a proven iterative and repeatable process that shortens time-to-value.
The GoHealth BC site is the first complete-from-scratch build for Northern Health in partnership with Acro Commerce, and it is a brilliant opportunity to show off our accelerated development model to its full potential.
To best use everyone’s resources, we ran a discovery & strategy phase, delivering the necessary information architecture artifacts. At the same time, our front-end and back-end software teams got to work on the Drupal build.
"Working with Acro Commerce has been a great experience over the years for myself and our organization (Northern Health). Their expertise in custom web development and site security has significantly enhanced our online presence and streamlined our operation. The team at Acro Commerce continues to demonstrate exceptional professionalism and dedication, ensuring our needs are always met with innovative and timely solutions. We are grateful for their support and highly recommend Acro Commerce to any organization seeking to elevate its digital capabilities."
Darren Smit - Regional Manager, Web, Intranet and Design, Northern Health
Traditional vs. Accelerated Development
Traditional development is also called waterfall development, and each stage happens consecutively. Using this process, the first version of a website takes months and months longer.
When adopting an accelerated development path, work is done on multiple fronts simultaneously, dramatically shortening the time it takes to deliver a website.
Using Agile-backed project management and development processes, we met Northern Health’s deadline and launched their brand new site in under three months.
Site Capabilities
Testimonials | FAQ | Site Search | Community Pages | Job Postings
Building the Future of Healthcare Quickly & Efficiently
Northern Health needed a web development agency to rise to the challenge of a new, modern website delivered in a very small window to improve recruitment and fill critical job openings in British Columbia.
- Accelerated time-to-value for a working recruitment tool.
- Ability to handle multiple ongoing projects at once.
- Agile, iterative and repeatable processes.
Meet with our team today if these sound like your website development goals.
