Kaiser Permanente Medical Center Selects ScheduleAnywhere for Healthcare Staff Scheduling

Nurse scheduling software helps control overtime and ensure shift coverage

FARGO, ND - November 30, 2009 - Atlas Business Solutions, Inc. (ABS) announced today that Kaiser Permanente, one of the nation's leading healthcare providers, has chosen ScheduleAnywhere as its nurse scheduling software for one of its regional networks of medical staff. Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa Medical Center will use ScheduleAnywhere to manage the day-to-day work schedules of physicians, nurses, and staff, plus gain real-time visibility of schedules and staffing needs for their facilities throughout the Santa Rosa, CA area.

Scheduling Nurses Online 
ScheduleAnywhere provides Kaiser Santa Rosa with the tools necessary to ensure proper schedule coverage for its nurses and other medical staff, while tracking their time off, availability, and skills and certifications. Managers, along with the Santa Rosa staffing office, can determine staffing requirements, instantly see coverage gaps, identify available employees, and fill these gaps proactively and better control overtime costs. ScheduleAnywhere also automatically handles shift rotations, which reduces the amount of time nurse managers spend scheduling. 

"Atlas Business Solutions is proud to be working with Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa to offer a scalable, facility-wide, web-based scheduling solution that meets their staffing needs," said Jon Forknell, ABS vice president and general manager. "Saving time and money has always been paramount in healthcare, but even more so now with the current state of the industry. ScheduleAnywhere will help Kaiser Santa Rosa better serve its 113,000 members by reducing unnecessary overtime and streamlining the scheduling of its approximately 1,500 employees."

Day-to-Day Staffing Requirements 
ScheduleAnywhere provides Kaiser Santa Rosa with a centralized system for real -time visibility of work schedules across its many facilities. Kaiser Santa Rosa utilizes ScheduleAnywhere for skills and certification tracking to instantly identify available employees to meet specific staffing requirements.

"ScheduleAnywhere is the right solution for us. With multiple schedules and facilities, the staffing office is able to access all schedules and determine our staffing needs," said Heather Clemons, Kaiser Santa Rosa Staffing Office. "Knowing staff requirements helps us fill any coverage gaps ahead of time, which helps control our overtime costs. ScheduleAnywhere is very easy to use, and helps us quickly view staff availability, due to sickness or vacation, and shift coverage. ScheduleAnywhere has dramatically reduced the amount of time it takes our managers to create and maintain schedules. Instead of just copying previous schedules, ScheduleAnywhere allows staffing coordinators to plan their schedules, forecast scheduling needs, and complete other tasks."

What is ScheduleAnywhere? 
ScheduleAnywhere is an online employee scheduling service that includes everything a manager needs to quickly and easily create and manage employee work schedules. This Software as a Service (SaaS) helps ensure proper shift coverage, eliminate scheduling conflicts, manage shift rotations, track time-off and hours scheduled, handle staff availability and time-off requests, track skills and certifications, and estimate payroll costs. With real-time access to schedules, ScheduleAnywhere assists thousands of managers and businesses daily by saving them time and helping reduce unnecessary overtime. ScheduleAnywhere is ideal for both small businesses and large corporations.

How to get ScheduleAnywhere 
ScheduleAnywhere subscriptions start at $19.95 a month for up to 25 employees and costs just $0.50/month for each additional employee. Free live phone and e-mail support are provided at no additional cost. For more detailed information, call ABS at 1-800-874-8801 (1-701-235-5226) or visit www.scheduleanywhere.com to access the 30-day free trial. ScheduleAnywhere can also be licensed as a self-hosted solution, along with an API. 

About Kaiser Permanente 
Kaiser Permanente is committed to helping shape the future of health care. They are recognized as one of America's leading health care providers and not-for-profit health plans. Founded in 1945, their mission is to provide high-quality, affordable health care services to improve the health of its members and the communities they serve. Please visit www.kp.com or www.kaisersantarosa.org for more information.

About ABS
Atlas Business Solutions, Inc. (ABS) is a leading provider of easy-to-learn, easy-to-use, and affordable business software. Since 1991, ABS has helped customers directly reduce costs, save time and streamline business processes by providing employee scheduling software, human resource software, appointment scheduling software, and business plan software. ABS was named one of Software Magazine's Top 500 Software Companies in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.