Simple, pain-free staff scheduling

See how easy it can be – Do MORE with LESS!

  • Save money
    Reduce over-time, over-staffing, and temporary labor costs. Managers know exact costs of staffing decisions as they schedule.
  • Save time
    Eliminate hours spent scheduling and calling employees on the phone – managers will have more time to MANAGE!
  • Increase quality
    Improve service/care coordination and decrease non-productive hours.
  • Make your staff part of the solution
    Let them help you collaboratively schedule themselves and fill open shifts, request PTO and swap shifts online.
  • Increase efficiency & effective decision-making
    Instant visibility of location, shifts & schedules, employees, job types, risk areas, budget/cost impacts, and schedule by ratios or hours per patient day (HPPD).
  • Increase communication
    Send scheduling changes and announcements, in real-time by e-mail and cell phone text message.
Easy to implement and use for managers and staff = Greater adoption and return on investment
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Join hundreds of customers using ShiftHound:

“ShiftHound enables us to maintain proper staffing levels for patient care and manage labor costs for budget purposes at the same time. It allows us to quickly determine the financial impact of any labor changes without having to compute manually. Using ShiftHound is a huge time saver and also provides transparency at multiple levels of the organization.”
— Jay Trumbo,
Vice President of Operations Finance,
Trilogy Health Services, LLC
“Summit Medical Group chose Shifthound because it offers a centralized staff scheduling solution for more than 55 clinical departments. We can modify assignments and better forecast shift needs — tasks that might get lost in the paper world. We can access Shifthound from any computer at any time and make updates for real time viewing/decision-making. From nurses to physicians, clinical staff love having a web-based schedule and staff schedulers love the ability to view and confirm time off requests. Shifthound at Summit Medical Group streamlines staffing, improves communication, contributes to greater efficiency and ultimately, produces more time for patient care”
— Karen Graham,
Chief Operating Officer
Summit Medical Group
“ShiftHound has given us the ability to track overtime, in real time, and adjust our staff schedules accordingly. When we have a temporary drop in census we are able to immediately identify what shifts are in overtime thereby reducing our overtime FTE usage rate.”
—D Monaghan
UHS-Friends Hospital

Why Choose ShiftHound?

ShiftHound delivers unrivaled scheduling and open shift management (OSM) features utilizing the latest Web 2.0 technologies, including:

  • Easy Point and Click – online scheduling of any shift-based employees (full time, part-time, per-diem, agency, float, etc).
  • Enterprise Wide – handles multiple Divisions, Facilities and/or Departments – employees can be shared (or not) across any or all, as required.
  • Manage Over-time – scheduling alerts and prevention.
  • Staffing Ratio Alerts – for over-scheduling and under-scheduling of staff to NEEDS or RATIOS.
  • Manage to staffing budget – see total costs of each shift as managers build a schedule. Calculates staffing to Hours per Patient Day (HPPD) in real-time.
  • Multiple Shifts – handles multiple shifts, shift lengths (8, 10, 12 hour, or any length), and as many start times within a shift as required.
  • Multiple Job Types – handles multiple job types (positions, skills, groups, crews, etc). Only staff that can work a shift can see it, swap for it, or fill it.
  • Rotations – handles multiple templates for scheduling automation and complex rotations.
  • Open Shift Management (OSM) – let your staff log-in and fill open shifts online and do other scheduling chores (swaps, PTO, etc). Managers just click to approve/deny and notification is sent instantly by email or text message.
  • Last Minute Needs – managers can see who is available to work for last minute needs and instantly communicate via email and/or cell phone text message.
  • Role based security – what is viewed and what functionality can be used is completely configurable for each manager and employee or job type.
  • Multiple scheduling views – by Department, by Employee, by Ratio/Hours per Patient Day, etc.

Many other features and functions, including announcements, management dashboards, an employee portal & calendar, “beg list,” reports, etc, etc.

Accessible 24/7 to all of your employees via any web browser for one low monthly fee – no hardware or software for you to buy, implement, maintain, or upgrade – we do that for you!
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Law Enforcement Officer Scheduling

Law enforcement scheduling may include police department schedules, sheriffs department schedules, correctional facility schedules, security officer schedules, police schedules, sheriff schedules, correctional officer schedules and schedules for anyone else involved in law enforcement. First check out our software for scheduling employees.

Since laws need to be enforced 24/7/365, most law enforcement agencies and correctional facilities use rotating shifts where officers work in regular patterns of days on and days off. Sometimes the shifts rotate and other times they do not. Usually police schedules have rotating days off, but not always. Both 8 hour shifts and 12 hour shifts can be easily scheduled to rotate days off and/or to rotate shifts. The use of 10 hour shifts is appealing because it can provide 3 days off each week, but since 24 can’t be divided evenly by 10, excessive shift overlap is required to fit three 10 hour shifts into a 24 hour day. If your officer coverage needs are less for a few hours a day, a combination of 10 hour shifts and 8 or 12 hour shifts can be used to adjust staffing levels to fit your needs. Another approach to a 4 day, 40 hour week uses 2-12 hour and 2-8 hour shifts a week.

Our Series 3 Template Schedulers are very popular with police and sheriff departments as well as correctional facilities for scheduling their officers to rotating shifts. The schedulers can use any shift pattern that you can imagine. And if you need help imagining shift patterns, we offer hundreds of 8, 10 and 12 hour schedules covering 1, 2 and 3 shifts a day for 5, 6 and 7 days a week. Click here for details. Law enforcement agencies come to us all of the time asking us to help them craft a schedule that provides the unique coverage that they require within available staffing limitations. If your coverage requirements are unique and, for example, require a certain number of male and female officers on each shift, they are easily scheduled in one of our Rotating Shift Schedulers.

Once you have established your schedule and work patterns, individual officer schedules can be easily adjusted to accommodate officer availability and your staffing needs. Vacation scheduling is a snap and you can easily schedule people to cover the vacated shifts. The program keeps track of the number of officers scheduled for each shift and will alert you when vacations and other absences drops shift staffing below a critical level. The overtime scheduling feature keeps track of the number of overtime hours worked by each officer and will tell you which ones have the fewest overtime hours and which ones are available for an extra shift each day.

Click here to learn more about our Series 3 Template Schedulers

Law Enforcement Online Scheduling Software – Online scheduling REPLACES EXCEL spreadsheets and other outdated and inefficient scheduling methods. Do your scheduling in one place, using our easy to use web-based software, and let your managers and staff update and view the schedule from anywhere. ShiftHound online scheduling lets managers set up schedules, templates, rotations, and handles multiple facilities and departments, lets them customize shift lengths (8, 10, 12 hour, or any length) and start times, and provides real-time notification of all schedule changes (online, email, cell phone). Allowing staff members to go online to request time-off, swaps, and extra shifts, as well see when they are working, saves everyone time. In addition to the cost savings, ShiftHound increases efficiency and creates better quality of life for managers and staff.