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Piedmont and Piedmont Fayette Hospitals Add SelfScheduling for Nurses...

RES-Q® Healthcare Systems announced that Piedmont Hospital, Buckhead, Ga., and Piedmont Fayette Hospital, Fayetteville, Ga., are implementing the optional Self-scheduling Module with the RES-Q® Labor Resource Management system. Adding self-scheduling to our implementation of RES-Q Labor Resource Management is critical to our efforts to advance flexible staffing, said Barry Hawthorne, R.N., M.S.N., C.N.A.A., vice president, patient care services and chief nursing officer, Piedmont Hospital. Self-scheduling helps us ensure right-sized staffing that is clinically appropriate, cost-effective and responsive to nurses's shift preferences.



RES-Q Labor Resource Management is a Windows-based, Web-enabled system for enterprise staffing and scheduling. It produces clinically sound, skill-matched and financially sensible staffing in efficient schedules. With the optional Self-scheduling Module, employees can log on and view their departments's schedules and select their own shifts or propose exchanging shifts with colleagues. The department manager logs on to the management view in the module to review and approve shift requests and finalize schedules. E-mail messages are then automatically formatted and sent to employees's work and home e-mail addresses with their schedules.



Piedmont Hospital is a 458-bed acute tertiary care facility in the northern Atlanta community of Buckhead. Piedmont Fayette Hospital is a 106-bed acute care community hospital in Fayetteville, Ga. The hospitals have used RES-Q Labor Resource Management to manage staffing and scheduling since 1989. Piedmont Hospital and Piedmont Fayette Hospital are part of Piedmont Healthcare, a not-for-profit organization, that also includes Piedmont Mountainside Hospital (PMH), a 35-bed community hospital in Jasper, Ga.; Piedmont Newnan Hospital, a 143-bed acute care facility in Newnan, Ga.; the Piedmont Hospital Foundation; Piedmont Physicians Group, with more than 75 primary care physicians in 21 offices throughout metro Atlanta; and the Piedmont Clinic, a 524-member physician network.



RES-Q Healthcare Systems will demonstrate its staffing and scheduling software solutions, including self-scheduling, at the following upcoming conferences:



Rutgers College of Nursing, 25th Annual International Nursing Computer & Technology Conference, June 15-16, 2007, San Francisco Marriott, San Francisco, Calif.;



Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), ANI: The Healthcare Finance Conference, June 25-27, 2007, Booth #1517, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, Calif.; and



17th Annual Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics, July 18-21, 2007, University of Maryland School of Nursing, Baltimore, Md.



About RES-Q® Healthcare Systems

Since 1979, RES-Q® Healthcare Systems (Calabasas, Calif.) has pursued one mission: advancing resource management and scheduling software for hospitals. RES-Q® Labor Resource Management produces clinically sound, skill-matched, financially optimized, and productive staffing in schedules that account for staff preferences. RES-Q® Perioperative Resource Management reviews and verifies surgeon needs and preferences, personnel and equipment requirements, supply lists and inventory, and operating room availability and then establishes surgery schedules that minimize conflicts and maximize productivity. RES-Q'ss management team, with an average of 15 years with the company and decades of front-line experience in hospital administration, helps hospitals set their schedules for today and set course for success tomorrow. For more information, call (800) 572-1911 or visit www.res-q.com.

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