Project Background

In early discussions laminar Consulting discovered that VCA was not using any sort of centralized application to run their day-to-day operations. The larger hospitals resorted to using an elaborate spreadsheet that was put together by a senior hospital manager. The spreadsheet was used to manage payroll scheduling Hospital Staffing and financials. Spreadsheets were then uploaded on a daily basis to VCA corporate headquarters in order to run daily monthly and quarterly balances. The biggest expense hospitolsincurre is

The biggest expense hospitals face is payroll and if Scheduling and Staffing are out of balance it costs the hospitals greatly. VCAclearly needed a longer-term solution in a short amount of time so VCA approached laminar consulting services to design, develop and deploy a web application which would replace the spread sheet and centralize hospital operational information. This would eliminate the manual upload process and any data entry errors using the older spreadsheet method. It also would provide VCA management better visibility into the daily business operations across the 1000s of hospitals across the US and Canada.