Kronos® Incorporated customers Anna Marie Butrie, vice president of operations improvement and Debbie Coakley, director, at Catholic Health East (CHE), will present a strategic session on how CHE achieved significant efficiencies and cost savings through a successful productivity improvement pr

USA (June 12, 2009) –

What:

Kronos® Incorporated customers Anna Marie Butrie, vice president of operations improvement and Debbie Coakley, director, at Catholic Health East (CHE), will present a strategic session on how CHE achieved significant efficiencies and cost savings through a successful productivity improvement program. Butrie and Coakley will discuss the specific steps that CHE took to achieve labor cost savings.

When:

Monday, June 15th at 2:45 p.m.

Where:

ANI 2009 Healthcare Finance Conference
Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, Wash.
Kronos is exhibiting in booth #429

Why:

With $1.6 billion in annual acute care hospital salaries and benefits expenses for 54,000 employees across 11 states, CHE’s senior management determined that an enterprise-wide productivity improvement program was needed to manage labor expense. By implementing a system-wide productivity program and facilitating the sharing of comparative reports and best practices, CHE improved workforce productivity and controlled labor costs. The success of the program is based on standardized infrastructure definitions and an automated tool (Kronos Visionware). With the healthcare industry significantly impacted by macro-economic conditions for the first time in decades and labor costs remaining high, attendees will learn about CHE’s effective labor management program.
About Catholic Health East

Catholic Health East is a multi-institutional Catholic health system, which is co-sponsored by 9 religious congregations, and Hope Ministries, a Public Juridic Person within CHE. Based in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, the System provides the means to ensure the continuation of the Catholic identity and operational strength of the sponsors’ health ministries, which are located within 11 eastern states from Maine to Florida. The System includes 34 acute care hospitals, four long term acute care hospitals, 25 freestanding and hospital-based long term care facilities, 14 assisted living facilities, four continuing care retirement communities, eight behavioral health and rehabilitation facilities, 32 home health/hospice agencies, and numerous ambulatory and community-based health services. CHE facilities employ approximately 54,000 full-time employees as partners in ministry.
About Kronos Incorporated

Kronos is the global leader in workforce management solutions that enable organizations to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity. Tens of thousands of organizations in 60 countries — including more than half of the Fortune 1000® — use Kronos time and attendance, scheduling, absence management, HR and payroll, hiring, and labor analytics applications. To learn how Kronos uniquely delivers complete automation and high-quality information in an easy-to-use solution, visit www.kronos.com.

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