Kronos® Selected By North Shore-LIJ Health System

The North Shore-LIJ Health System, the nation's third-largest, non-profit, secular health system, and the ninth-largest employer in the city of New York, has selected Kronos Incorporated® to implement time and attendance and employee scheduling across the organization.

News Facts

• North Shore-LIJ is automating critical workforce business processes with Kronos for its 38,000 employees across more than 50 facilities and offices, including hospitals, rehabilitation centers, emergency management systems, research centers, and administrative offices.
• The health system selected Kronos because of its industry leadership; commitment to research and development; superior integration capabilities; and its advanced scheduling solution.
• With Kronos, North Shore-LIJ is eliminating its previous manual paper-based timekeeping and scheduling processes to achieve efficiency and standardization across the locations.
• The accuracy in timekeeping will also enable the organization to review wage and hour regulatory requirements and manage overtime effectively. Additionally, North Shore-LIJ expects to improve staff-to-patient ratios with real-time knowledge and utilization of labor.
• By enhancing efficiency with Kronos, the health system expects to achieve its organizational goals of improving the patient experience; delivering the highest possible quality care; and enhancing financial performance.

Supporting Quotes

• Joseph Cabral, senior vice president and chief HR officer, North Shore-LIJ
  "We believe that our talent is our competitive advantage and we must manage our workforce with the right tools. By partnering with Kronos, we will be able to move away from relying on dated, paper-dependent, and manual processes, and instead leverage real-time data to move our workforce into a more productive and patient-focused organization.
• Brian Graves, global practice leader of healthcare, Kronos
  "It's an honor to be selected by North Shore-LIJ, a trailblazer in the industry known for continued innovation to serve a region of 5.2 million residents. Its focus on quality care can only be matched by its commitment to the local community. We are dedicated to helping the organization further leverage its most important asset—the workforce."

About North Shore-LIJ Health System
The nation's third largest, non-profit, secular healthcare system, North Shore-LIJ cares for people of all ages throughout Long Island, Queens, and Staten Island – a service area encompassing more than five million people. The health system consists of 14 hospitals, 17 long-term care facilities, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, three trauma centers, five home health agencies, a hospice network, and dozens of outpatient centers. In addition, North Shore-LIJ is partnering with Hofstra University to develop a new medical school. North Shore-LIJ's owned facilities house about 5,000 beds, employ about 9,500 nurses and have affiliations with more than 7,500 physicians. Its workforce of about 38,000 is the largest on Long Island and the ninth largest in New York City. For more information, visit: www.northshorelij.com.

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.

SOURCE: Kronos Inc.