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A Question of Logistics: Getting the Right Clinician, to the Right Place, at the Right Time
"How can I improve my agency's staff retention and productivity at the same time?"
As a home health, hospice, or private-duty administrator, you know the difficulties of hiring and retaining a top-notch team. Whether your patients require nurses, therapists, social workers, or aides, the staffing shortages never end.
Meanwhile, your schedulers are stretched to the limit trying to meet the ever-growing demand for care. Scheduling takes hours every day, and no one can shake the feeling that there ought to be a better way. If that wasn't enough, your clinical team spends much of the day driving, sometimes even passing each other on the highway, one nurse leaving a neighborhood far from their starting point, while another nurse enters the same neighborhood.
You wonder, "Why couldn't the scheduling team figure that one out?"
The truth is, it's not a problem that a human mind (or 20 minds) can solve. No scheduling team on earth can work out a decent solution for a problem with literally trillions of possible configurations.
When you pile on ever-present pressure on billing rates and the threat of staff departure if they are asked to do more, it's no surprise that many agencies, and perhaps the home health industry as a whole, are at a breaking point.
In today's home care industry, it is obvious that caregivers must be deployed in the most productive way possible. Under such conditions, there is no place for the old way of sticking tacks in maps or even using EHR software to match clinicians to unassigned visits. Why? Because the EHR software doesn't know whether a clinician will be 200 feet or 20 miles away from that new visit.
Now You Wonder:
Companies like FedEx and UPS figured out the most efficient way to deliver packages a long time ago. Why can't a similar approach be applied to the scheduling and delivery of home health, hospice, and private duty care?
"What if my software DID know how far away my clinicians will be? What if my software matched clinicians to patients based on qualifications AND location along their routes?"
How to Navigate the Unknown Territory of Location-Aware Scheduling for Home Health
"I don't know anything about logistics software. How can I choose the right vendor?"
Choosing a specialty software vendor when you have little expertise in the category is scary. You feel deeply responsible for your team and your patients--not to mention your job. How can you get some help to make the right decision, without having to spend months and thousands of dollars hiring a consultant to advise you?
While we can't make the decision for you, we can offer a few key tips to help you have informed conversations with the vendors that you choose to evaluate.
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Who knows, you might end up feeling like the home health CIO quoted below.
I truly believe this product is going to revolutionize how we do business, while enhancing our patients’ satisfaction with Visiting Nurse and offering a better quality of life for our clinicians.
Christy Brice
CIO, Visiting Nurse Health System of Atlanta
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