Tracking caregivers and home healthcare workers can be challenging when assignments are made at all hours and at individual patient sites. Delivering a better customer experience requires effective workforce management software systems that allow you to address the complexity of assigning and scheduling jobs while processing accounts payable accurately.
When patients are forced to keep track of the comings and goings of their own healthcare workers, it can add stress to their lives. This can interfere with the patient service you provide. Your unique healthcare challenges can easily be addressed with a customized workforce management solution that hits all the pain points your management team, healthcare workers and clients experience.
Patients and their loved ones are often faced with unnecessary issues caused by poor caregiver management. These issues can include:
By introducing a time management system, you can not only provide more dependable services, but also advertise your efficiency efforts as a selling point. Both patients and caregivers will benefit from the system as it makes tracking hours easier and more accurate.
Systems customized for the specific services and hours provided by home healthcare companies allow you to remain on top of scheduled workers and ensure smoother operations for your management, workers, and clients. Inaccuracies in billing not only make you look bad, but also involve additional HR/payroll or accounting hours to track errors, adjust and inform clients and workers of the issues.
Your goal is to optimize efficiencies, so your team spends less time checking for errors and more time ensuring your patients are safe and happy. Benefits of using a time management system for your home caregivers include:
All hours are accounted for, all assignments are performed to meet the expectations of the patient and each caregiver is paid correctly for their time.
Today’s home healthcare businesses require cost efficiencies of home offices for managers and owners. With a mobile tracking system, you can use reporting features that make it possible to check on information such as payroll, schedules, location of caregivers and more.
If you are on the road selling and run into a scheduling challenge due to a sick caregiver, you can access the schedule and find a replacement from your team of healthcare workers. A centralized dashboard provides the tools you need whether you are at your office, assisting a patient at their home or driving in your car.
Operating costs can be greatly reduced when you can improve workforce management. Reduction of human error alone can reduce manually tracking timesheets to look for discrepancies. Time-off requests are integrated into scheduling, so you always know who is available reducing the need to rework schedules. Work hours are billed correctly so you reduce the odds of paying out more than is required, while also tracking overtime claims accurately.
When caregivers have a say in their schedule, they are happier which reduces costs in recruiting talent. You can plug everyone’s hours into your system so you can easily prepare schedules to suit everyone’s needs. You can make a list of caregivers willing to be on call for emergencies such as someone calling in sick. This, in turn, improves your ability to remain responsive to both caregiver and patient needs. It’s a win-win situation that helps keep your business operating successfully improving patient outcomes and caregiver satisfaction.