Balancing your staff assignments with your long term care facility’s census needs is critical in your effort to control labor costs.  The trick is to operate with just the right number of staff to fulfill your daily census needs.

Identify staffing requirements for each hour of the day based on daily census data.
Review your staff schedule [...]

LeadingAge, a national long-term care association, recently had an article on their website titled, 10 Aging Services Technologies that Belong in Your Organization.  The article listed 10 technology solutions an aging services organization should be equipped with in our modern times.
Here’s the brief version of their list (you can follow the link above to the [...]

In the long term care industry labor costs associated with overtime are the proverbial thorn in the side of administrators as they get pressure to quantify bottom line labor cost savings from the CFO or Director of Operations.
We tend to categorize overtime into two main buckets:

Planned Overtime

Planned overtime essentially consists of overtime that has been [...]

How are you currently controlling your staff’s overtime expense?  Is your scheduling process efficient?  Do you have the ability to change and create schedules on the fly when call-outs happen?  Does your time and attendance system alert you when your staff is approaching overtime so you can make an informed change to the staff schedule [...]

Workforce Management is such a necessary, yet often a more-complex-than-one-thinks set of business processes.
On this blog I’ve often referred to workforce management solutions as ‘infrastructure solutions.’  By this I mean, if your workforce management solution/processes are in place and they’re optimized appropriately for your business’ needs, you don’t think about it much on a day-to-day [...]