Alternatives to Payroll Advances for Healthcare Employees
Payroll advance requests usually start the same way: A strong employee pulls a manager aside. They’re embarrassed. Something unexpected happened. They need part of their paycheck early. You want to help. In healthcare, that instinct runs deep. But after the third or fourth request that quarter, a different question surfaces: Is this sustainable? Payroll advances…
How to Reduce Call-Outs in Healthcare
Call-outs don’t just disrupt a shift. They trigger a chain reaction. A CNA calls out. A nurse stays late. Another staff member picks up overtime. Fatigue builds. The next call-out becomes more likely. In healthcare, absenteeism is rarely isolated. It compounds. And while many leaders treat call-outs as a policy or accountability issue, the data…
Does Earned Wage Access Reduce Turnover?
Turnover isn’t just a human resources metric. In healthcare, it’s a strategic warning sign. It predicts higher costs, lower quality of care, and strained morale throughout your organization. Across hospitals, skilled nursing, home care, and allied health, turnover continues to challenge leaders: Nearly 30% of healthcare staff turnover occurs in the first year of employment.…
How Earned Wage Access Helps Reduce Overtime Burnout in Healthcare
Overtime Isn’t Just a Staffing Issue. It’s a Financial Signal. Healthcare operators often track overtime as a labor cost problem. But overtime can also reveal something deeper. When staff consistently volunteer for extra shifts, it may not be about career ambition. It may be about financial pressure. And that pressure has consequences. In hospitals, skilled…
Earned Wage Access vs. Payday Loans: What’s the Difference and Why It Matters for Healthcare Workers
Imagine a benefit that 62 percent of workers say would make them more interested in an employer, simply because it lets them access their pay right after a shift or job is completed. In today’s tight labor market, flexible pay options are no longer niche perks; they are signals that employers are listening to workers’…
The Staffing Metric That Healthcare Leaders Often Overlook
Overtime. At first glance, overtime feels like a solution. Your shifts are all covered. Clients or residents receive care. The schedule holds itself together for another week. Nothing appears broken. But patterns start to emerge when you look beyond a single pay period. The same employees keep logging extra hours. Overtime becomes predictable rather than…
Solve Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) Challenges with Earned Wage Access
Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) was designed to improve accountability, reduce fraud, and ensure that Medicaid-funded care is delivered as authorized. And in many ways, it has done exactly that. But for home care and personal care providers, EVV has also introduced some operational and workforce challenges. Missed clock-ins, late visit confirmations, rejected claims, delayed payroll,…
Earned Wage Access: Leveling The Playing Field To Retain Healthcare Workers
Keeper has leveraged app usage history to help you shape and form your healthcare worker recruitment and retention strategy. Introduction Keeper is an earned wage access platform designed to help healthcare employers recruit and retain workers through an increasingly requested benefit: daily pay. App users can access earned funds from shifts worked before their next pay day, helping them…
EWA Isn’t Just a Perk: It’s the Next Step for the Healthcare Workforce and Beyond
By Abie Kolt, Chief Operating Officer, Keeper Healthcare runs on people who show up every day. Nurses, medical assistants, home health aides, caregivers, environmental services teams, and dietary staff. The work is constant, demanding, and essential. But despite everything we’ve modernized in healthcare, from digital records to remote monitoring, how we pay healthcare workers has…
CFPB Changes: What Employers Need To Know About Earned Wage Access (EWA)
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently clarified definitions and changes that will impact how earned wage access can be used in your workplace. In brief: The CFPB issued an Earned Wage Access advisory opinion that comes at a time when the legal landscape around earned wage access has been shaped and formed over the…