Sage Solutions for Health Care Scheduling and Staffing

Sage Solutions for Health Care Scheduling and Staffing Offering development of master schedule rotations, scheduling and staffing and scheduling workshops.

Over 40 years of healthcare experience including setting up and managing a staffing office and program management of Kronos implementation.

03/21/2025

With their win tonight, Canada 🇨🇦 seal a spot in the play-offs ✅

12/30/2020

I am pausing my business while I go and help at Markham Stouffville during this pandemic. Although I was happy to be retired per say when the pandemic began- I am also happy to back to contributing during this historic time. I believe I can make a difference. While it may be last job before I do actually retire but oh so fulfilling!

12/14/2020

I see so many people who do not think this virus is real and believe there should be no restrictions, and find it inconvenient to wear masks. Meanwhile our healthcare workers are burning out because people refuse to do their part to stop the spread. Here is a fact that most of you do not know. Before we had ever even heard of COVID 19 the Canadain Nurses Organization predicted a shortage of 60,000 RN positions in Canada for 2020. PSW's were also already in short supply. Some healthcare workers have died and some have been ill. Some have left their professions forever. Some will suffer PTSD from the horror of the experiences from this pandemic. We are headed for the worst nursing shortage we have seen. Who will take care of you when you are sick? Please stay home and stay safe. Follow the rules for all our sakes. There will be other times to gather for that BIG family dinner.

10/16/2020

As we see the COVID pandemic ramp up again we will see more staffing shortages in health care. When there is any health care crisis, the answer from the government is to throw money at health care establishments. However , often there is is not available staff to just ramp up services. When this happens and the facilities do not have the available staff to schedule the extra activities - it just leads to overtime and staff burn out. In Ontario, hospitals in particular are mandated to balance their budgets.

Premiere Ford spoke earlier about having the surgeons work weekends to catch up the surgical backload. There are a few flaws in this idea. Additional surgical cases will require hospital beds for the rehab piece. This is the time of year when hospitals start to get busier and they are starting to see higher capacity now. When flu season gets here they will be in surge. The surgeons require time off or they burn out. Would you like a sleep deprived surgeon operating on you? It does not just require surgeons to work additional hours, there are nursing and support staff required to add those extra cases in. with hospitals already understaffed, this will be a huge challenge. With a pandemic in the mix, it becomes an impossible task.

Recently the government said their staffing experts have advised they put money towards recruiting staff to deal with the crisis. But where will that staff come from when we already had a shortage? In long term care, we have known for a long time that staff are overworked and underpaid. So there needs to be a long term plan to get healthcare back on track. Yes- start recruiting staff ( which starts with training more staff but that takes years for some professions) , have a plan to retain staff ( FT work, better wages, flexible work-life balance) , and better scheduling processes. This will not be an overnight fix!

06/16/2020

Nurses are our superheroes. They have put their lives on the line during this pandemic to save ours. They have been showered with lots of talk of love, respect, admiration, and free meals. They did not ask for those things and in fact, they have asked that the free meals be given to the homeless or someone in need. That's because they are nurses. Nurses care. Nursing is still a female dominated profession. Nurses are not allowed to strike. They are protesting at Queen's Park on their days off. They are tired and need our support now. We need to have their backs in their fight for a fair wage. The ONA arbitration award was not fair to our heroes. It was disrespectful to them. Let's stand with our nurses and demand a fair settlement. They stood up for us - now let's show them the respect they so rightly deserve.

05/13/2020

Good master rotations supply nurses with good work-life balance. While every line does not have to be the same - they do have to be fair and equitable. Scheduling rules are in collective agreements for a good reason. A colleague of mine shared that they have a new rotation on their nursing unit. The Staffing Office did not create it -one of the nurses did. The lines are all different and some of them have scheduling rule violations. Some have nights to days without the correct time off in between. This will lead to increased sick time, less employee engagement and in the end more overtime. Let the experts do the work. Create a scheduling committee with staffing office, nursing and union collaboration. As we move forward form the COVID outbreak - this will be very important.

Happy Nurses Week - we applaud your heroism!
05/11/2020

Happy Nurses Week - we applaud your heroism!

05/07/2020

COVID 19 - As things start to ramp up - example elective surgery being rescheduled - are you prepared? We know nurses in the OR suites require extensive specific training. When the government inevitably starts to ask hospitals to add extra OR times to catch up that backlog- where will the staff come from? Are you prepared - did you complete any training during the downtime? Also the surgeons will also have yet another backlog of new patients whose appointments were cancelled in the midst of the pandemic. Today Christine Elliot even threw out the idea that surgeons may be redeployed. It's time to strategize how you will handle the next steps.

Address

7 Indian Road
Hawkestone, ON
L0L2E0

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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705-487-1913

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