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There's days when there's more rooms running past 5 PM than they're staffed for. They have a high load of add-on cases, and there's not predictability. So in order to do this manually, it's ask…

What the predictive analytics helps you do is essentially say, well, based on these patterns, we can understand you may not want to staff those two extra rooms on that third Thursday of the month…

We saw a lot of our clients that had a high degree of traveling nurses, which can be really costly to an organization. We had a lot of clients that felt as though-- well, maybe…

One of the big drivers behind developing the perioperative nurse staffing tool was largely surgical services has experienced a tectonic shift post-COVID with the drop in elective surgeries that happened and then the ramp up…

Not every staff person is cross trained across every specialty. And also different organizations have different preferences that maybe fall outside of the norm of traditional ARON, or other productivity driven guidelines. And that's something…

The need to make adjustments, particularly, like Barb mentioned, for specialty-specific needs, has grown, and I think organizations are realizing-- they've known for a long time, but are really prioritizing their financial health and are…

My background, being a director, I was very familiar with different types of staffing models, with benchmarks, industry standards. And every client that we would visit would ask us to do a staffing analysis compared…

Traditionally, ORs look at the block schedule. And they'll say, we have four ortho rooms on a Monday, two GYN rooms, et cetera. And that's how they'll try to build their staffing schedule. X number…

By aligning all the staffing levels, we're able to identify what the needs are based on the predicted case load and doing it manually the traditional way, we certainly just couldn't accomplish that. Merlin has…

One of the reasons that we wanted to develop this solution is that we've seen some problems with nurse staffing throughout the industry. Almost every organization that we've been in has asked us to evaluate…