LaborConnect™
Sustaining improvement across your organization requires more than short-term, temporary reactions. High-performing cultures require a framework of the correct tools and proven processes.
Premier's LaborConnect program is a comprehensive, integrated product and service offering aimed at addressing the pressing labor challenges facing healthcare organizations today.
LaborConnect will guide you as you face:
- Rising labor and department staffing expenses
- Escalating borrowing costs and bad debt
- Declining productivity levels and rising turnover rates
Together labor challenges can be faced and costs can be reduced
Premier's experience shows that shared objectives, combined with commitment and transparency in best practices, lead to the most improvement for hospitals. Collaboration, a critical element of the LaborConnect program, is key to your success. Discovering the best practices of top performers and incorporating them into your organization will accelerate your results.
Leveraging Premier's vast clinical process expertise and the wealth of knowledge stemming from our nationwide, groundbreaking labor initiatives, LaborConnect will allow its members to recognize significant return-on-investment (ROI), just as Premier has been delivering to our customers for nearly 40 years.
LaborConnect goals
The specific goal of LaborConnect is to help healthcare organizations improve labor management, while preserving or increasing quality care and operational costs. More than just a software tool, LaborConnect integrates three core components to reach its goals – data analytics and software, performance improvement support services and collaborative knowledge sharing. An emphasis will be placed on several key labor-related indicators:
- 10-15 percent improvement in efficiency without increasing labor cost
- 10-20 percent reduction in premium pay rates
- 5-10 percent enhancement in productivity through effective position control process
LaborConnect and Concerro
Premier has expanded the scope of LaborConnect by partnering with Concerro (formerly BidShift) to offer comprehensive shift management systems that combine an online shift scheduling application with an innovative shift management program, which matches nursing and other healthcare employees with available shifts, online and in real time.
Concerro’s HealthStaff 2.0 modules help reduce premium pay, optimize use of the current workforce and improve employee satisfaction.
- Core Calendaring™ (.pdf)
- ShiftRewards™ (.pdf)
- StaffReach™ (.pdf)
- Case Studies (.pdf)