Simple, pain-free staff scheduling

• Save money
  Reduce over-time, over-staffing, and temporary labor costs. Managers know exact costs of staffing decisions as they schedule.
• Save time
  Eliminate hours spent scheduling and calling employees on the phone - managers will have more time to MANAGE!
• Increase quality
  Improve service/care coordination and decrease non-productive hours.
• Make your staff part of the solution
  Let them help you collaboratively schedule themselves and fill open shifts, request PTO and swap shifts online.
• Increase efficiency & effective decision-making
  Instant visibility of location, shifts & schedules, employees, job types, risk areas, budget/cost impacts, and schedule by ratios or hours per patient day (HPPD).
• Increase communication
  Send scheduling changes and announcements, in real-time by e-mail and cell phone text message.

Why Choose ShiftHound?

ShiftHound delivers unrivaled scheduling and open shift management (OSM) features utilizing the latest Web 2.0 technologies, including:

• Integration to Other HR Systems - ShiftHound's powerful Integration Engine allows any Time & Attendance or HR system such as Kronos, Lawson, ADP, PeopleSoft, etc. to be easily integrated with its online Scheduling application.
• Easy Point and Click - online scheduling of any shift-based employees (full time, part-time, per-diem, agency, float, etc).
• Command Center - perform ALL scheduling tasks from one page with a few easy clicks (perfect for Tablet use)
• Enterprise Wide - handles multiple Divisions, Facilities and/or Departments - employees can be shared (or not) across any or all, as required.
• Manage Over-time - OT Avoidance List displays all of your future scheduled OT allowing you to find alternatives.
• Staffing Ratio Alerts - for over-scheduling and under-scheduling of staff to NEEDS or RATIOS.
• Manage to staffing budget - see total costs of each shift as managers build a schedule. Calculates staffing to Hours per Patient Day (HPPD) in real-time.
• Day View - enables staffing needs at 15 minute increments, visibility to the entire day's schedule by shift with easy shift slide adjustments.
• Multiple Job Types - handles multiple job types (positions, skills, groups, crews, etc). Only staff that can work a shift can see it, swap for it, or fill it.
• Rotations - handles multiple templates for scheduling automation and complex rotations.
• Open Shift Management (OSM) - let your staff log-in and fill open shifts online and do other scheduling chores (swaps, PTO, etc). Managers just click to approve/deny and notification is sent instantly by email or text message.
• Last Minute Needs - managers can see who is available to work for last minute needs and instantly communicate via email and/or cell phone text message.
• Role based security - what is viewed and what functionality can be used is completely configurable for each manager and employee or job type.
• Multiple scheduling views - by Department, by Employee, by Ratio/Hours per Patient Day, Day View etc.
• iCal export - export your schedule from ShiftHound using iCal export so you can transfer your work schedule to your master calendar system.

Many other features and functions, including announcements, management dashboards, an employee portal & calendar, "beg list," reports, etc, etc.