Case Study | Home Health & Rehabilitation Therapy Staffing

How Stern at Home Therapy Accelerates Specialized Therapist Hiring with EasySource

Slashing time-to-hire by 45%, and capturing over $60,000 in agency cost savings

4 Roles

Confirmed closures in 1 month

45%

Faster time-to-hire

$60,000+

Direct cost savings

PT, PTA, OT

Discipline coverage

The Sector Challenge

Providing in-home and facility-based physical and occupational therapy requires licensed clinicians across strict geographic territories:

Niche Territory Demands: Home health therapy requires therapists (PTs, OTs) willing to travel across specific regional territories rather than working in centralized hospitals.
High Candidate Shortages: Licensed Physical Therapist Assistants (PTAs) and OTs are heavily recruited and rarely browse traditional job boards.
Severe Revenue Drag: An open therapy requisition directly leads to unassigned patient cases, delayed care delivery, and lost practice revenue.

The EasySource Solution

Yale Smith, Director of Talent Acquisition, integrated EasySource as an AI co-pilot to automate top-of-funnel discovery and outreach:

Hyper-Local Radius Sourcing: EasySource mapped active PT, PTA, and OT state license registries within exact patient travel zones.
Multi-Discipline Precision: Seamlessly handled recruitment across home health therapy and facility-based positions (e.g., Port Jervis PTA facility roles).
Automated Personal Engagement: Delivered tailored, human-sounding outreach that highlighted localized patient care advantages.

Yale Smith, Director of Talent Acquisition at Stern at Home Therapy — Yale Smith, Director of Talent Acquisition, Stern at Home Therapy.

“In therapy staffing — especially mobile outpatient and Part B home care — finding clinicians who are licensed, mobile, and available in specific geographic pockets is extremely challenging. EasySource completely changed the equation for us. It acts as a force multiplier for our TA team, identifying exact-fit PTs, PTAs, and OTs and starting meaningful conversations right away. While I am a Director, I do not need a team now as EasySource AI agents act as junior sourcers and being a one-man army, I can now outperform most TA teams of our competitors.
By leveraging HireQuotient's AI agents, we cut our time-to-hire nearly in half (45–50% reduction in time to close positions) while taking complete control of our recruitment pipeline without relying on expensive staffing agencies. Cost savings have been to the tune of $60,000+.”
— Yale Smith, Director of Talent Acquisition, Stern at Home Therapy

Measurable Business Impact

Key takeaway for rehabilitation & healthcare TA leaders

Stern at Home Therapy's experience proves that rehabilitation staffing teams don't need high third-party agency budgets to solve clinical shortages. By turning to EasySource AI agents for localized territory sourcing, TA leaders like Yale Smith can fill PT, PTA, and OT positions 45% faster while protecting practice margins.

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