Count Your Benefits: Working with BB Imaging Gives You More
Managing a clinic is a heavy lift, but partnership with BB Imaging can make the load a lot lighter. In this season of gratitude, let’s count the benefits that come from working together.
1. No-stress staffing
As the sonographer shortage continues, hiring struggles continue as well. On average, it takes between 36 and 42 days to fill a sonographer role, but, for rural locations, that timeline can extend to 180 days or more. And securing a start date isn’t the only challenge. Onboarding, training, and ramping up the schedule for a new employee takes approximately 12 weeks.
So, if we do the math, even in the best-case scenario, it will take clinics a minimum of 120 days before they have a fully productive sonographer working for them.
In contrast, BB Imaging can set up your clinic with highly skilled, knowledgeable sonographers in as little as 30 days. The sonographers we place in your facility are guaranteed to meet or exceed your requirements and are always graduates of CAAHEP-accredited programs with current registries.
So let BB Imaging take the stress out of staffing for your ultrasound department. We’ll handle all the recruitment efforts, cover the hiring costs, ensure credentials and training meet your requirements, and staff your facility in as little as 30 days with expert sonographers.
2. No-fuss schedule coordination
Because we’re staffing your facility with our sonographers, you also get to say “goodbye” to schedule management. We’ll always make sure your shifts are covered, regardless of our staff’s shifting needs, PTO requests, or unplanned leave.
We can even help cover for your staff sonographers. In 2024, we not only fulfilled 100% of our scheduled days—we also covered 93% of PRN requests from our partners.
3. Hands-free training and professional development
If you’ve worked with sonographers for any length of time, you know they’re passionate about growing their skillsets and leveling up their expertise. And while those qualities make sonographers a great hire, those expectations can put additional strain on employers who aren’t equipped to assist with training tools, practice time, and exam fees.
Because we’re entirely dedicated to high-quality sonography, BB Imaging has built a robust internal development program. We offer a variety of resources, assist with exam fees, and provide an elevating environment, with a lot of experts to learn from.
This means, first, that you can cross ‘training’ off your to-do list. Second, it means you get access to some of the most highly credentialed sonography experts in the nation.
For example, we did a little math using the ARDMS database. In the U.S., there are 125,000 total registrants, and only 3.4% are registered in fetal echocardiography. Contrast that to BB Imaging’s team, where 62% of our sonographers are fetal echo registered. Additionally, among our OB/GYN sonographers, 62% are also nuchal translucency credentialed and 62% are CLEAR credentialed.
4. Done-for-you benefits and payroll
A sonography shortage means a lot of competition. Many facilities compete for talent through strong benefits packages, higher pay, and sign-on bonuses. But offering these perks isn’t available to every facility.
Thankfully, you can hand all those tasks and costs over to BB Imaging. We offer sonographers a long list of industry-leading benefits—a list that makes us a destination workplace for the sonography community. And we’re always evaluating and adjusting sonographer salaries to make sure our pay rates are competitive.
All of these efforts result in low turnover. Sonographers who work for us want to keep working for us. In fact, our retention rates are always above 90%.
You don’t have to compete in a small talent pool, and the experts we provide will be around for a long time. Sounds like a win to us.
5. Easy scalability
BB Imaging can help you staff ultrasound departments in every kind of facility, from large hospitals to one-room clinics—and we’re happy to provide a single sonographer or bring the whole team.
Our contracts range from long-term partnerships to short-term needs to coverage for seasonal spikes, and we're happy to adapt and grow with you as your patient demand fluctuates.
All of these options help our partners provide necessary appointments for their patients. Consistent coverage reduces the time until the next available appointment (from 8 weeks to 1 week for some!) and enables many of our partners to increase their services and make their ultrasound department more profitable.
6. Excellent diagnostics and patient care
Impressive credentials have to be followed up by highly accurate diagnostics and high-quality patient care, and our sonographers deliver on both counts.
We require 100% of our sonographers to scan to AIUM standards, even if the facilities they work in aren’t accredited. They’re also adept at onboarding provider preferences quickly and establishing them as part of our best practices and processes for your location. We also promise to care for your patients with the same level of compassion that you do, which leads to positive patient experiences and high patient satisfaction.
All these things work together to maintain and increase your reputation for outstanding ultrasound care.
7. Measurable cost savings
If you’re the kind of person who needs some numbers to better illustrate all the benefits of partnering with BB Imaging, we have you covered:
When BB Imaging handles sonographer recruiting, you save $10,500 in recruiting costs per open role.
A BB Imaging contract is based on usage. Compare that to an average salary of $80,000 per sonographer, plus thousands in benefits.
BB Imaging provides 100% of scheduled services. Compare that to the $22,000 in losses clinics incur for every week a sonographer is ill, injured, or on leave.
BB Imaging has created a destination workplace with a 90%+ retention rate. Compare that to a minimum cost of $130,000 for every sonographer turnover your clinic experiences.
Take the next step
You’ve counted the benefits. Are you ready to claim them now? We want to work with you. Just click the button below to set up a call.