Nursa Launches Central Staffing, a Centralized Workforce Platform Tailor-made for Healthcare Organizations

Solution provides schedulers and finance leaders with real-time cost and availability data, helping them prioritize internal staff, monitor spend and schedule in seconds

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Nursa, the leading workforce management solution for healthcare, has launched Central Staffing, a workforce management platform that allows healthcare facilities to easily organize, schedule and engage all levels of staff, from part-time to full-time workers. Central Staffing presents administrators, schedulers and finance leaders real-time information about staff availability and cost, empowering them to make the right decisions to get the right person scheduled in seconds, from nursing to kitchen staff.

Many facilities rely on heavily manual and cumbersome scheduling operations, with schedulers working off printed spreadsheets that must be manually updated on a constant basis and do not readily provide cost or licensure information that is critical to making informed staffing decisions. Even if organizations use a scheduling tool, most generic platforms rarely cover every department or accurately handle healthcare-specific tasks like call-outs and shift swaps. Purpose-built for healthcare, Central Staffing acts as a hub for all scheduling activity, bringing every department into one solution while adapting to each facility's rules and needs and bridging staffing and financial operations to lower costs.

With one click, schedulers can create a full schedule that aligns with staff preferences and census needs, and see the most cost-effective staffing solution available. When gaps appear, Central Staffing offers intelligent recommendations to fill each shift from internal staff before a facility looks at external resources. Leveraging data they haven't easily accessed previously, schedulers can adjust any assignment to build the strongest schedule around staff preferences, organizational need and financial priorities. When staff call off, swap or switch shifts, the schedule updates in real-time so that managers, on-call nurses and state surveyors can stay up-to-date.

"We built Nursa to help facilities find clinicians. And Central Staffing was built to help them have the visibility of all options from a completely data-driven source. This is especially important now, when budgets matter more than ever," said Curtis Anderson, founder and CEO of Nursa. "Schedulers carry a vast amount of information about staff and facility operations. Our platform supports all that knowledge, helping schedulers do their jobs faster, with less manual workload and mental gymnastics. Not only is time saved, but staff are happier when their preferences are codified, and workforce costs are lower when organizations see the full picture of where they could save with every shift at every step in the process."

Central Staffing was developed to support the unique needs of healthcare facilities, including:

• Room- and hall-level assignment boards based on scheduled staff and current census.
• Desktop and mobile app that enables employees to set availability and preferences, confirm schedules, and trade or swap shifts.
• Cost reports generated before a schedule is published, broken down by license type and source, including overtime, PRN and per diem.
• PPD and HPRD tracking, plus Payroll-Based Journal (PBJ) reporting of scheduled hours for CMS.
• Built-in access to Nursa's core marketplace, so an open shift goes to internal staff and contingent clinicians at once, with a single record of who picked it up.

"Schedulers are some of the most important people in the building, and too much of their time is dedicated to making decisions based on data they can't see when they need it," Anderson said.

"We're a 24/7 facility, so there are constant call-ins and changes in the schedule throughout the day. Having that mental drain of trying to remember everything to document it whenever I got back to my laptop was not effective," said Christy, a scheduler and early user of Central Staffing. "[Central Staffing] decreased my workload. It decreased the mental toll of trying to keep track of everything. It's taken a huge weight off of us as a whole."

Central Staffing is live at several facilities across the United States and is available to new and existing Nursa clients. Learn more about Central Staffing and request a demo here.

About Nursa

Nursa's mission is to put a nurse at the bedside of every patient in need, leveraging its leading workforce management platform to eliminate intermediaries, markups, and inefficiencies of historical staffing models by connecting facilities directly with nurses and caregivers. By connecting nurses directly to healthcare organizations, Nursa removes the financial and operational strain of critical staffing gaps, while supporting nurses at every stage of their career, including through flexible shifts, longer-term contracts, full-time jobs, and even nursing student placements. Nursa serves over 4,500 hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and other care settings through a network of more than 500,000 credentialed nurses.