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 [...]

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 [...]

I recently read a couple of Aberdeen reports about time and attendance strategies and workforce scheduling.
The reports drew a strong conclusion that marrying time and attendance data with scheduling data can help improve a company’s bottom line by streamlining processes surrounding a company’s largest expense – its workforce.�
That makes sense – if you build better [...]

With an automated time and attendance software you can proactively manage your company’s workforce, increase data accuracy by eliminating manual processes, offer supervisor and employee self-service options enabling your workforce to manage their own requests, all of which ultimately results in top executives having better insight into labor data to make timely key business decisions [...]

“How did we do on overtime last period?”  As the supervisor nervously awaits the bad news, he knows members of his team were close to going over but isn’t sure how the period ended up.  Was the team very busy or just poorly scheduled?
Currently, organizations are tightening their belts looking every place to cut costs.  [...]