The startup operates a healthcare workforce platform that connects healthcare organizations with local staff banks to enhance temporary staffing fill rates. This platform improves patient safety and ensures adequate staffing levels in clinical services by facilitating direct access to qualified healthcare workers.
Funding
$41.4M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Healthcare organizations face challenges in efficiently managing temporary staff, leading to unfilled shifts, increased agency costs, and potential compromises in patient care. Traditional staffing methods often involve manual processes and fragmented systems, making it difficult to quickly access qualified healthcare workers when and where they are needed.
Solution
Patchwork Health offers a comprehensive workforce management platform designed to connect healthcare organizations with staff banks and manage agency workers. The platform includes modules for rota management, collaborative staff banks, and agency management, providing an end-to-end solution for effective and sustainable staffing. By integrating these functions into a single system, Patchwork Health streamlines workflows, reduces administrative burden, and improves visibility into staffing levels and costs. The platform also offers features to support flexible working arrangements for clinicians, promoting better work-life balance and improving staff retention.
Target Audience
Patchwork Health primarily serves healthcare organizations, including hospitals and integrated care systems, seeking to optimize their workforce management processes, reduce agency spending, and improve staff satisfaction.
Features
- Rota management tools for service planning, rota building, scheduling, leave management, and exception reporting
- Staff bank functionality to grow the pool of available staff and manage shift bookings
- Collaborative bank technology to enable clinicians to work across organizational borders
- Agency management module to efficiently deploy agency workers when needed
- Digital passporting to streamline onboarding and credentialing
- Data analytics platform (Patchwork Insights) for real-time performance monitoring and cost control
- Interoperability with existing e-rostering and payroll systems
- Mobile app for clinicians to view rotas, book shifts, and manage documents
- Configurable auto-cascade to approved agencies on selected and trusted frameworks