Staffi ng and Scheduling

Automating staffi ng and scheduling is the cornerstone of workforce optimization. Nurses make up the largest single component of hospital staff 3, so it makes sense to start staffi ng automation efforts with nursing. However, almost 50%4 of the hospital workforce is comprised of non-clinicians and other support staff. If you’re only using automation to streamline staffi ng and scheduling your nursing staff, you are missing the opportunity to optimize nearly half of your workforce.

High overtime and premium labor costs, compliance with union regulations and managing attendance impact the entire enterprise. In fact, some of the best labor-related cost savings come through more effi cient use of non-clinical labor – a signifi cant amount in a day and age where every bit of cost savings counts. Can your organization afford to miss out on those savings?

Here are 6 major benefi ts organizations can realize from automating staffi ng and scheduling enterprise-wide:

MaXiMiZe Your roi

Th e need to drive down unnecessary overtime and premium labor costs extends beyond nursing. Your organization can maximize cost containment by focusing on optimizing both clinical and non-clinical labor resources. Automated staffi ng and scheduling provides the foundation for enterprise-wide productivity initiatives.

eNJoY eNterPrise VisiBilitY

Get the full picture with enterprise-wide aggregate reports on important measures like attendanceand productivity to inform proactive decision-making. Make proactive, enterprise-wide adjustments that reduce unnecessary labor costs, which is only achievable when everyone is on the same system.

The Top 6 Reasons to Go Enterprise-wide with Automated

Staffi ng and Scheduling

laBor coMPrises

54.2% oF oPeratiNG costs1

Healthcare Practitioners and technical occupations:2

53.7%all others: 46.3%

1

2

c o r p o r a t e o f f i c e p h o n e f a x w e b

1550 Innovation Way | Hartford, WI 53027 262.673.6815 262.673.2650 apihealthcare.com© 2014 API Healthcare Corporation. All rights reserved. © 2014 General Electric Company – All Rights Reserved. GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric Company.

article sources 1 Retrieved from http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/10-

statistics-on-hospital-labor-costs-as-a-percentage-of-operating-revenue.html on May 2, 2014.

2 Retrieved from http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce-labor-management/what-occupations-make-up-the-hospital-workforce.html on May 16, 2014.

3 Retrieved from http://www.aacn.nche.edu/media-relations/fact-sheets/nursing-fact-sheet on May 13, 2014.

4 Retrieved from http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce-labor-management/what-occupations-make-up-the-hospital-workforce.html on May 16, 2014.

5 Retrieved from http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/feb/03/upward-mobility/ on May 13, 2014.

eNsure reGulatorY aND PolicY

coMPliaNce

Union, regulatory, and internal policy requirements – put them all together and the complexity can be daunting. An automated staffing and scheduling system can standardize the application of scheduling rules enterprise-wide to reduce the amount of administrative time spent and help ensure compliance with internal policies as well as various union contract obligations.

sHare resources

While nurses are critical to quality patient care, there are other specialties that are in limited supply. For example, The American Physical Therapy Association reports there could be a shortage of 41,000 physical therapists by 20205. Using an automated staffing and scheduling solution makes it easier to get the right person in the right place at the right time, allowing for optimization of valuable and limited resources, whether those resources are nurses or other members of the care team.

staNDarDiZe atteNDaNce Policies

Quite often, different departments use different scheduling methods, but also have disparate attendance policies. Enterprise-wide use of a single solution facilitates standardized attendance policies, while still offering the flexibility to accommodate specific departmental needs.

Better MaNaGe oPeN sHiFts

Today’s workforce is mobile. Deploying a single staffing and scheduling solution across your enterprise not only increases the pool of available staff for open shifts, but allows for instant open shift notification and employee response – at the touch of a button. With open shifts filled more quickly and efficiently, the entire organization runs more smoothly.

coNclusioN

Leverage the benefits your organization has realized with your API Healthcare staffing and scheduling solution by reaping those benefits beyond your nursing staff. Employees benefit from more control over their schedule, which improves satisfaction, increases accountability and makes it easier to fill open shifts throughout the entire organization.

By reducing the amount of manual, time-consuming administrative scheduling tasks, managers and supervisors spend less time tracking documentation and wading through cumbersome procedures. That provides them with more time to provide leadership and improve patient care.

To find out how enterprise-wide staffing and scheduling

can benefit your organization, contact Inside Sales at:

Sales.Inside@APIHealthcare.com.

3 5

6

4