Sales Presentation — Workforce Scheduling for Meridian Health Group

Prepared for: Karen Osei (COO) and the operations leadership team, Meridian Health Group Presented by: Daniel Marsh, Account Director, Brightpath Date: 19 March 2026

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Slide 1 — Title and hook

Every unfilled shift at Meridian costs roughly $1,900 in agency cover. Last quarter there were 412 of them. Today we will show how Brightpath helps your unit managers fill those shifts faster, and at a lower cost, without adding to their workload.

Slide 2 — Agenda

• The scheduling problem your unit managers face today
• How Brightpath fills shifts faster and cheaper
• A result from a comparable hospital group
• Pricing, and the pilot we are proposing

Slide 3 — Your problem

From our discovery sessions with three of your unit managers, the picture was consistent:

• Shifts are built in spreadsheets, then juggled by phone and text when staff call in sick.
• Open shifts often go to agency staff by default because there is no fast way to offer them to your own bank and part-time nurses first.
• Managers spend an estimated 9 hours a week each on scheduling instead of on the floor.

At 412 agency shifts last quarter and around $1,900 each, that is roughly $783,000 a quarter in cover that better internal fill rates could reduce.

Slide 4 — Why it matters now

Your bank-staff pool grew 22% this year, but without a fast way to reach them, those nurses are not being offered the open shifts they would happily take. Every week that gap stays open, it defaults to agency spend — and the new winter rota planning starts in eight weeks.

Slide 5 — Our solution

Brightpath replaces the spreadsheet-and-phone scramble with one scheduling system built for clinical teams.

• Instant open-shift broadcast — an open shift is offered to your eligible bank and part-time staff by app in seconds, filling internally before it ever reaches agency.
• Rules-aware rota builder — skill mix, contracted hours, and rest rules are checked automatically, so managers build a compliant rota in minutes, not hours.
• Live cost view — managers see internal-versus-agency cost as they fill, so the cheaper option is the obvious one.

Slide 6 — How it works

1. Managers build the base rota in Brightpath; the system flags gaps and compliance risks.
2. Open shifts broadcast to eligible internal staff, who claim them from their phones.
3. Anything still open escalates to your approved agency list, with the cost shown.
4. Worked hours export straight to your payroll, with no re-keying.

Slide 7 — Proof

Northgate Trust, a five-site group close to your size, ran Brightpath for nine months:

"We cut agency spend by 28% in the first two quarters, mostly by filling shifts with our own bank staff before they ever went to an agency. Our ward managers got hours back every week." — Priya Nandakumar, Director of Nursing, Northgate Trust

Slide 8 — Pricing and packaging

Package	What's included	Investment
Single site	Scheduling + open-shift broadcast, 1 site	$1,400 / month
Group (recommended)	All sites, payroll export, priority support	$5,600 / month
Group + analytics	Group plan plus agency-spend dashboards	$7,200 / month

Against roughly $783,000 a quarter in agency cover, the Group plan at $16,800 a quarter pays for itself if it shifts barely 2% of those hours back in-house. We expect far more.

Slide 9 — Why Brightpath

• Built for clinical rotas — skill mix and rest rules are first-class, not an afterthought.
• A dedicated onboarding lead for your full rollout, included in the Group plan.
• References from three hospital groups of similar size, available on request.

Slide 10 — Next step

• The ask: approve a 90-day pilot on your two busiest sites.
• What happens next: we configure your rotas and bank-staff list within two weeks of go-ahead.
• Timing: starting now puts the pilot results in your hands before winter rota planning begins.