
From Healthcare Employee Engagement to Patient Satisfaction: Your Guide to Building a Service-Value Chain
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VISIER FOR HEALTHCARE
Labor is your single largest cost – and every staffing decision affects patient care. Visier gives your HR, finance, and clinical leaders a single, trusted view of your workforce so you can act with confidence.

VISIER WORKFORCE INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM
Visier connects your HRIS, payroll, scheduling, agency, and clinical data in one single place - so every insight is consistent, accurate, and secure.

72% of US health systems operate at 2% margins or below. Labor is 50–60% of total operating expense. And a staffing gap isn't just a cost problem, it's a patient care problem. Most teams are making workforce decisions on disconnected, unreliable data.
Visier changes that.
of total operating expense is labor
national RN turnover rate
average cost to replace a single registered nurse operating expense is labor
healthcare job openings are projected annually
$3M
saved in one year by hiring 2,000+ caregivers ahead of vacancy before gaps opened

12,000 EMPLOYEES
1,000
more nurses retained year-over-year, improving workforce stability

139,000 EMPLOYEES
158%
ROI on a data-driven retention program targeting at-risk cohorts; annualized turnover cut to 10%

9 HOSPITALS

NURSE RETENTION
Visier People is a turnkey solution that includes everything you need to deliver meaningful workforce insights so you can demonstrate ROI on your investment remarkably fast. We help you start strong—not from scratch.
Understand what's driving turnover
Identify at-risk nurses by unit, manager, tenure band, and shift type, before they give notice – no annual survey lag
Tailor retention programs to the individual level with manager guidance triggered by live flight risk signals
Correlate HR investments with outcomes across cohorts

Agency Cost & Labor Expense
When nurses burn out, they leave. When they leave, you backfill with agency labor. When unit staffing thins, remaining staff carry more overtime, and burn out faster. This often leads to worse patient safety outcomes and lower HCAHPS scores.
Visier shows you exactly where the cycle starts, what it costs, and which interventions actually break it.
See your true total labor cost: permanent, agency, and overtime unified in one view
Identify units where overtime and agency dependency are early warning signals of attrition
Track whether your staffing interventions are reducing the cycle, or just deferring it
Correlate HR investments with outcomes across cohorts
“The biggest impact on business outcomes is how we forecast vacancies. We've hired over 2,000 caregivers in advance of the vacancy, which has actually contributed to over $3 million in savings.”

Workforce Planning
By the time a vacancy hits your staffing plan, you're already behind. Visier's predictive models give workforce planning teams the lead time to hire proactively, accounting for seasonal demand, historical attrition patterns, and role-specific flight risk across every unit.
Forecast vacancies months before positions open
Factor in seasonal surges, contract endings, and manager-level attrition risk
Tailor retention programs to the individual level with manager guidance triggered by live flight risk signals
Build hiring plans against projected vacancy, not just current headcount

Implementation at Scale
Providence built a workforce intelligence function that serves thousands of business users, not just analysts. Getting there meant choosing a platform that could wrap around the complexity of a 51-hospital system without requiring a data science degree to use.
Enterprise data governance built in from day one, not bolted on later
Normalize workforce data across acquired facilities - scales from a regional medical center to an IDN; M&A friendly
One platform your leaders will actually adopt, because it's built to be used, not just queried
“We brought Visier in to wrap our arms around our own complexity and reduce the number of tools and stories being told. We wanted to make people insights more digestible for people who have to make the change, and Visier has been that for us.”
We’ll show you what it looks like when your retention, planning, labor cost, and clinical data finally work together.
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