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WRX Expands Nationally to Provide Help & Hope to Nation's Hospitals

Posted on: March 5th, 2009 at 5:16 pm EST

HUDSON, Fla., March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Workforce Prescriptions ("WRX") announced on Friday that it would be expanding its services nationwide in a move targeted to bring relief to thousands of hospitals previously not served.

 WRX, a mission driven firm headquartered in Hudson, FL has spent the last 3 years working primarily with faith-based hospitals, assisting them in reducing labor costs without having to resort to reductions in staff or services.

 Through the auspices of their "Pay Practice Audit(TM)," Workforce Prescriptions analyzes hospital labor waste derived from a variety of sources such as; agency and premium pay use, challenges in staffing/scheduling, avoidable delays in care/discharge that drive up length-of-stay, workforce productivity and the governance of key workplace policies/processes. WRX then makes specific recommendations designed to reduce expense without reducing people. "Since labor expense represents as much as 50% of all the costs of operating a hospital, becoming more efficient with labor can have nearly a dollar-for-dollar impact on profitability," states John Delaney, Senior Vice-President of Client Services.

 "Unique to our firm is an evidence based approach that seeks not just correlation but the 'root causes' of labor waste and then stays in the game with customers through implementation to guarantee a return to the bottom line," says company President Charlie Dawson. He goes on to state, "This is why we offer a $1,000,000.00 annual recapture guarantee. We get to know the people, processes and pressures that foster waste and work with the organization to solve problems in a non-judgmental, results focused manner that returns millions of dollars to the bottom line."

 WRX's phone rings steadily with requests for assistance from traditional not-for-profit and for-profit hospitals all of whom are bearing an increased burden from diminishing reimbursements/uncompensated care compounded by rising labor costs. Company leaders reached the decision to make their services available to non faith-based hospitals during a planning meeting held in 2008. "It was just getting too difficult to keep saying NO to all the hospitals that were seeking our help. So we made our expansion plans and automated some key aspects of our services to allow us to help any organization who reached out to us," stated Dean Kristiniak, Vice President of Key Service lines. "It was time our mission expanded to encompass all of healthcare and not just the faith-based segments. With the changes we have made, we are now able to successfully help hundreds rather than dozens of hospitals each year."

 Workforce prescriptions charges a nominal fee for their audit, guarantees results and then provides onsite implementation support that includes facilitation, change management and even software (when needed) to drive the results required to reach and sustain profitability. In 2008, WRX identified an average of $6.38M in annual bottom-line returns for each customer (at a cost of less than 1% of the return).

 About Workforce Prescriptions

Workforce Prescriptions is an "evidence based" consulting firm headquartered in Hudson, FL that provides assistance to hospitals desiring to: enhance their revenue opportunities, reduce their cost of labor & length of stay or to improve their human capital practices. Workforce Prescriptions focuses primarily in the not-for-profit sector of healthcare in order to "assist those organizations whose own mission requires them to take extraordinary risks in order to ensure access to quality healthcare for the neediest of American's."

 Workforce Prescriptions can be contacted at (888) 343-8403 or online at http://www.workforcerx.org

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WRX Changes "Pay Practice Optimization" to "Pay Practice Audit"

Posted on: April 30th, 2007 at 6:42 pm EST

HUDSON, Fla., April 30, 2007/ --  In a move designed to reduce dependence and expense, WRX announced today that it will be phasing out its “Pay Practice Optimization” service line in favor of its more scalable “Pay Practice Audit”.

“This move is the final step in aligning our own business practices with our mission”, states Dean Kristiniak, VP of Client Services, ”it allows us to spend less time in up-front auditing and more time as volunteers actually guiding our clients through the often challenging and scary process of change”.
 
“Knowing that we spend an inordinate of our time supporting inner-city not-for-profit health systems who truly shouldn’t afford the extraordinary costs associated with fully custom consulting has driven us to design an automated front end to our services that allows our time and attention to be focused on ensuring the best possible results for our clients”, says Charlie Dawson, President of Workforce Prescriptions.   He continues, “The Pay Practice audit will costs only 30% of the original service offering and with our new focus on implementation (supported at this time at no expense) will allow us to guarantee a bottom line savings”!
 
The organization frequently articulates a deep disapproval of consulting firms who charge little for a diagnosis but who then “load up” the back-end costs of implementation. “It’s kind of like paying a physician $25 for proof that you have a debilitation disease. That’s not the bad part, you already knew something was very wrong. The bad part is when he guarantees he can cure you but that the cost of the cure is $2.5MM even though it requires only 1 pill per day. A lot of consulting firms “feel” like that to hospitals and that is not at all a practice we intend to replicate”, claims Michelle Dawson, the firms CFO.
 
About Workforce Prescriptions

Workforce Prescriptions is an "evidence based" consulting firm headquartered in Hudson, FL that provides assistance to hospitals desiring to: enhance revenues, reduce their cost of labor & length of stay or to improve their work practices/processes. Workforce Prescriptions focuses primarily in the not-for-profit sector of healthcare in order to "assist those organizations whose own mission requires them to take extraordinary risks in order to ensure access to quality healthcare for the neediest of American's."
 
Workforce Prescriptions can be reached at (888) 343-8403 or online at http://www.workforcerx.org
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CKD Enterprises announces the formation of a healthcare-centric company

Posted on: August 15th, 2006 at 6:25 pm EST

HUDSON, Fla., August 18, 2006/ --  CKD Enterprises, Inc. announced the launch of a new "hospital exclusive" consulting firm named, Workforce Prescriptions designed to identify and target waste associated with the heavy labor dependency of the healthcare marketplace.

"Over the last decade the national media has focused heavily on the shortages of key healthcare staff to the exclusion (and growing challenge) of the escalating costs of such staff", claims Charlie K Dawson, founder and president of Workforce Prescriptions.  He goes on to state, "As the perceptions of supply side scarcity have grown . . . so have the long-term cost burdens on hospitals.  Knowing that staffing costs can only escalate with annual increases, it is high time that someone begin to evaluate the long term risks such phenomenon impose".
 
Dean Kristiniak, newly hired VP of Client services goes on to say, "When you commoditize the applicant above the job, you incent poor behavior, undermine good stewardship and guarantee that the maintenance costs of staff acquisition rise well out of proportion to the value added by such staff".  “Our Pay practice Optimization service offering is designed to evaluate the practices and processes associated with effectively deploying existing staff to ensure that waste is eliminated and that hospitals can produce their desired outcomes with fewer staff while reducing the work-burden on those staff”.
 
Workforce Prescriptions (WRX) was founded on the belief that “doing things differently” is a more effective means of improving productivity than, “doing more with more people”. By addressing issues with scheduling, premium pay, negative incentives and faulty work processes WRX is determined to reduce labor expense without undermining staffing levels, employee engagement or clinical quality.
 
For more information on Workforce Prescriptions, please visit their website at http://www.workforcerx.org
 
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