WORKFORCE Pulse
Fill the chair before it’s empty
Pulse shows you which professionals are available near your practice and alerts you the moment one of them opens up a date. You can book weeks ahead, hold a standing chair on your busiest day, and build the schedule you want instead of the one you can manage.
The difference
Reactive staffing versus staffing with Pulse
Reactive
Somebody calls out and you scramble
The morning starts with a gap and everyone works the phones until it closes. A good outcome here still only gets you the day you had already planned, and you find out what the market has left at the worst possible hour to find out.
With Pulse
You can see who is free and book them early
Availability near your practice lands in your alerts as it opens up, so you can hold a second hygiene chair on your busiest day, put a name against August in March, and add production the schedule was never going to carry on its own.
What you get
Everything you need to book ahead with confidence
Pulse puts availability, distance and timing in one place so you can fill chairs on your own schedule.
See the talent around you
Pulse maps availability against real travel distance from your practice, so the professionals you see are the ones who can genuinely reach you on a working morning.
Alerts the moment someone opens up
When a hygienist or assistant near you posts a free date, it reaches you straight away. Good dates get claimed quickly, and knowing first is most of the advantage.
Book months out, not mornings out
Approved leave, school holidays and continuing education can all go on the board as soon as they are known. You pick from everyone free on the date.
Hold a standing chair
Set a recurring booking on the day your schedule is always tightest, so the extra column runs without anyone rebuilding it each week. Somebody who has worked it before gets first sight of each date, though every week is still theirs to accept.
Build a bench you can call on
Professionals who have worked your practice before are flagged, so you can go back to somebody who already knows your rooms and your charting.
Watch the gaps before they open
Coming absences and unfilled days are visible together, which makes it easy to spot the weeks that are about to get tight while there is still time to act.
Where the production actually goes
These rarely surface as a loss anywhere in the numbers, which is why they run for years without anyone taking them on.
Recall that quietly slides
An uncovered hygiene column pushes patients a month down the calendar, then another. Enough drift and the recall schedule stops doing the job it exists for.
Capacity you never open
Plenty of practices could run a second hygiene chair on their busiest day. The patients are there and the room is there, but nobody has the time to go and staff it.
Diagnosis that never happens
Hygiene appointments are where restorative work gets found. Every one that falls off the schedule takes the treatment it would have surfaced with it.
Absence you knew about in February
Holidays, leave and continuing education get approved months ahead, then covered in the week they land, from whoever happens to still be free.
Your numbers
What an empty chair is costing you
Put in what a day in your chair actually produces and this will do the multiplication for you.
Your numbers
Nothing here is our estimate. Put in what your practice actually looks like.
Days a chair sits empty because nobody is in it
What a full day in that chair typically bills
All-in cost of putting somebody in the chair
Production not happening
$86,400/year
$7,200 a month, from 4 days of empty chair
If those days were covered
+$56,640/year
Production recovered after the cost of covering the day, at $1,180 net per day.
Arithmetic on the figures you entered, not a forecast. It assumes every open day gets covered and that a covered day produces what a normal one does, and neither is guaranteed.
Four ways practices actually use this
Add a standing chair on your busiest day
Pick the day your schedule is always tightest and run a second hygienist in it every week. The extra column becomes part of how the practice runs rather than something anyone has to arrange. Who fills it can vary, so build a few people who know the room instead of relying on one.
Post approved leave the day it is approved
Somebody books August off back in March, so put August on the board in March. You get to choose from everyone who has that date free while the choice is still wide open.
Go back to people who know your rooms
A professional on their fourth day with you already knows the charting shorthand and half the regulars. They start producing at the top of the morning instead of after lunch.
Clear a recall backlog in blocks
Book a run of consecutive days and work the overdue list down in one go. It pulls recall back into shape far faster than squeezing extra patients into a schedule that is already full.
Cedar Park Dental ran the second of these through a whole summer and did not close a column. Read what that looked like.
Nothing new to learn
You post the day you want covered, it reaches verified professionals within range of your practice, and somebody claims it. Pulse simply lets you do that for a day you picked, weeks or months before it arrives.
Posting early is also the easiest way to get a better match. Everyone free on the date can put their hand up, so you have room to choose someone who suits the day.
On every temp placement
- The professional is our employee for the booking.
- Registration is confirmed before the shift.
- Payroll, insurance and workers' compensation are ours.
- One all-in hourly rate, with nothing added afterwards.
All of it applies exactly the same way to a booking made months in advance.