The original healthcare workforce optimization firm

Healthcare workforce optimization, by the firm that established the discipline.

Labor is more than 70% of your budget – and most of it is deployed by schedules nobody designed. We rebuild the business processes, master schedules, and relief models underneath. Not an agency. Not a platform. The work itself.
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•25 YEARS    • HEALTH SYSTEMS · ACUTE · LTC   • SOFTWARE-NEUTRAL

Workforce Deployment Maturity Model

The framework we assess against. Most health systems we meet are operating at Level 2.

5Strategic – workforce planned as a financial asset
4Managed – forecast, instrumented, governed
3Defined – standardized across every unit
2Inconsistent – unit-by-unit, manager-createdMost start here
1Reactive – daily short-fill, no design

The Employee Scheduling Assessment scores you against it. Fifteen statements, about four minutes, your result on screen the moment you finish. Name and email to start.

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25 yrs

Establishing and practicing the discipline of healthcare workforce optimization.

Our history
$17.2M

Annual cost reduction at a four-hospital, 6,500-employee health system.

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30-50%

Overtime reduction, with 1.5-3.0% total cost avoidance across engagements.

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10,000+

Healthcare workers in our proprietary workforce study – one of the largest of its kind.

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What we solve

Start where it hurts.

Five problems account for most of the calls we take. Pick the one you recognize – each goes to a page that explains the cause, the fix, and what it has produced elsewhere amongst your comparators and competitors.

Overtime and agency spend keep climbing

Premium pay is treated as a staffing problem. It is almost always a relief-design problem – no built-in coverage for predictable absence, so overtime and agency become the only short-fill tools available.

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Our scheduling system implementation has stalled

Requirements were gathered in silos, configuration failed testing, the vendor is waiting. The technology is rarely at fault. Strategic decisions and business processes were never standardized before system configuration and testing.

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We cannot keep nurses

The shortage is partly a scheduling problem in disguise. Unpredictable, inequitable, and unworkable schedules erode trust faster than compensation can repair it.

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Every unit schedules differently

Managers rebuild schedules by hand each cycle, approvals vary floor to floor, and no two units define coverage the same way. Standardization is the precondition for everything else.

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We cannot forecast the staffing we will need

Short-horizon scheduling keeps the organization in a permanent short-fill posture. Future shift-filling is impossible to achieve when the planning window is condensed to four to six weeks.

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Not sure which one you have?

That is what the consultation is for. Thirty minutes, one of our managing partners, no obligation.

 

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Who we serve

The same work reads
differently from each chair.

A CFO and a CNO are looking at one workforce and two entirely different problems. Help your executive team understand the issues, with proof that each role finds persuasive.

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LOCATIONS

Canada & United States
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Phone

877.326.9998

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