April 16, 2021: Baxter Regional Medical Center, AR, completed a successful Go-Live with CareWare for Nurse Scheduling. Baxter Regional was a previous customer of Care Systems, but left when the hospital introduced a hospital-wide software suite integrating payroll, timekeeping, scheduling, and HR. However, as this software did not meet the nursing department’s needs, Baxter Regional turned to CareWare to fill the gaps.
“Baxter Regional has so many accolades for being a great place for nurses: Journey to Magnet Excellence (ANCC), Best Places to Work 2019 & 2020 (Arkansas Business), 2018 Top 20 Hospitals (NHRA), Rural and Community Top 100 Hospitals 2018 (Charter Group), and 2017 Best Hospital for Nurses (nurse.org). Thus, I am particularly proud that they chose Care Systems to empower their staff via a paperless e-scheduling system along with effective self-scheduling,” says Project Manager Jafar Basha. “Working with the leadership and their commitment to staff satisfaction and usability has made implementing CareWare a wonderful experience.”
The key benefits Baxter Regional expects to gain by incorporating CareWare are:
- Ease of use (usability)
- More system-generated notifications to help in daily operations
- Self-Scheduling to improve staff satisfaction; reducing time taken to create new schedules
- Enhanced reporting capabilities on sickness and OT
- Improved staff retention and empowerment with self-scheduling
In addition to self-scheduling, the other feature of Baxter Regional’s implementation is a custom interface with their incumbent timekeeping system. This allows the Nursing Department to use CareWare while giving other departments a seamless experience within their timekeeping system.