OnShift Recognizes Top Staffing Leaders with Fifth Annual Scheduler of the Year Awards

CLEVELAND, OH --(Marketwired - April 06, 2016) - OnShift, a leader in human capital management software for post-acute care and senior living, today announced the winners of its annual Scheduler of the Year Awards. OnShift clients submitted nominations outlining the organizational successes driven by schedulers in their communities. This year's winners were selected from over 100 nominations across assisted living, skilled nursing and continuing care retirement communities.

The 2016 OnShift Scheduler of the Year Award winners are:

• Brenna Bohn, Integrace Copper Ridge
• Andrea Douglas, MediLodge of Milford
• Rhonda Edwards, Sandpiper Courtyard and Sandpiper Rehab & Nursing
• Margaret Gillespie, Good Samaritan Society Millard
• Derek Groves, Henderson Nursing & Rehabilitation
• Mae Prater, Bradenton Health Care

The nominations detailed the efforts of schedulers and how their work with OnShift's staff scheduling and labor management software led to improvements in cost control, resident care, staffing efficiencies, and community morale. Highlights from the winning submissions include:

• "She has used the message function to congratulate, inform, and motivate the staff. OnShift has allowed our staffing efforts to reduce overtime and provide better quality outcomes with our patients. Overtime dropped from a high of 5% to below 1% by the end of the year. The facility moved from being a 3 star facility to a 5 star facility."
• "I have never met another person with such devotion to scheduling. She is excellent at communicating with the nursing staff using OnShift, posting schedules, filling open shifts and sending messages out to the staff."
• "She works endlessly to ensure that we have the amount of staff that we need to care for our residents. She drops everything to accommodate any staffing need that we have. She goes to great lengths to get to know and understand the needs of the employees so that she can organize a schedule that is both beneficial for the employees but also to the residents and other staff."
• "She serves as our 'scheduling consultant' for our other locations currently using OnShift. She has absorbed every aspect of the program and has helped get overtime down by 74%!"
• "He is very patient with our staff, and the new hires absolutely love him. In our region we have 14 other facilities and we are number 1 in compliance and number 1 in overall use of OnShift and currently have the lowest overtime rates. He has brought overtime from 10% or more down to 1-3% on a normal basis."

"This year's Scheduler of the Year Award winners each demonstrated an exceptional level of service to their community that we are proud to recognize," stated Jim Rubadue, Vice President of Customer Success, OnShift. "Their daily commitment to proper staffing and scheduling has helped elevate organizational performance by delivering high quality care, eliminating unnecessary labor costs, and engaging their teammates. It is our sincere pleasure to support and celebrate the fantastic work from these schedulers."

Long-term care and senior living executives are focusing on their staffing and labor management strategies to address industry challenges including turnover, wage pressures and changes stemming from healthcare reform. With OnShift's scheduling and labor management software, organizations gain easy-to-use tools to automate scheduling processes for higher efficiencies, prevent overtime for lower costs and optimize staffing levels for quality care. OnShift Schedule is part of OnShift's suite of human capital management products for hiring, scheduling, and workforce analytics.

Supporting Resources

Read more about the Scheduler of the Year Award winners in the OnShift Blog.

About OnShift, Inc.

OnShift delivers cloud-based human capital management software and proactive services to solve everyday workforce challenges in healthcare. Our suite of products for hiring, scheduling and workforce analysis drives quality care, lower costs and higher performance by empowering providers to staff consistently and efficiently. Intuitive design, predictive analytics and customer success management are why thousands of post-acute care and senior living organizations rely on OnShift. For more information visit www.onshift.com.