You can reduce your labor spend almost immediately with this step-by-step checklist that gives you the key areas, critical questions, and core team to cut labor costs.
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Checklist: Lower Your Labor Costs
If you can name your top OT contributor without looking it up, you already know where the problem is. This checklist helps your HR, DON, and scheduler get aligned and do something about it this week.
The checklist delivers the essential outline to create:
- Demand-based scheduling
- Right-sized float pool
- Premium-shift rules
- Weekly coverage scorecard
“March will be by far the least we’ve spent on agency. The goal is zero.”
– President, multi-facility skilled nursing operator
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Inside the Checklist
Identify four key sections to audit and walk through at the next team meeting. Built for HR, your Director of Nursing, and your scheduler to work through together. Areas to consider include:
Demand-based scheduling
Find out exactly who on your team is driving over time and whether it’s avoidable.
Right-sized float pool
Identify the 3–5 reliable, cross-trained people who can end most of your reactive spend.
Premium shift rules
Define who picks up open shifts, and under what conditions, before desperation does it for you.
Weekly coverage scorecard
The 20-minute meeting that keeps HR, DON, and scheduling aligned and OT in check.