Healthcare

Fill open healthcare shifts faster — without the phone tree

Frekyl helps healthcare teams move from short-notice call-off to qualified coverage using automated SMS and IVR outreach, customer-defined eligibility rules, and agency escalation when needed.

A nurse at home claiming an open 4 West shift by replying Y994 to a Frekyl text, a staffing coordinator on the unit reviewing it on her phone, and a Shift awarded card showing J. Okonkwo RN accepted from the callout — covered in seven minutes
The staffing problem

Every open shift is a race against the clock

Short-notice call-offs are routine. What makes them costly is the manual coordination that follows — and the narrow window in which it has to happen.

01
The call-off is unpredictable

It arrives at 03:00 or twenty minutes before handover, by voicemail, text or a call to the unit — wherever the person happens to reach someone.

02
Eligibility is not a list

Who can actually take the shift depends on role, credential, unit competency, hours already worked, overtime rules and agreement terms — checked by hand, under pressure.

03
The constraint is the clock

Every minute spent working a phone list is a minute the internal pool is still available. Miss the window and overtime or agency becomes the only option left.

Shift Filling

From open shift to qualified coverage

One automated workflow runs the whole callout — building the eligible pool from your rules, reaching people on the channels they already use, capturing responses and applying your award logic.

1
Shift becomes open
A call-off or vacancy raises the need against that unit and shift.
2
Eligible pool built
Frekyl filters the workforce using the rules you configured.
3
Outreach begins
Qualified staff receive the offer by SMS or automated call.
4
Responses captured
Replies are recorded against the shift as they arrive.
5
Award logic applied
Your configured rule decides who is awarded the shift.
6
Both sides notified
The employee and the staffing team are confirmed together.
Eligible pool · your rules
Role: RN
Unit competency
Credential current
Rest rules
Overtime limit
Eligible after rules
18/ 240
Outreach · SMS & IVR
Open shift — 3 West, Nights 19:00–07:30. Reply YES to accept, NO to decline.
YES
1
2
3
Same offer by automated call for anyone not reachable by text.
Awarded
M. Okafor · RN
AWARDED
Awarded by
Seniority · 9 yrs
Time to fill
Confirmed 06:19
Employee and staffing team notified together; the shift record updates automatically.
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Eligibility & rules

Coverage decisions are more than headcount

Filling a shift quickly only helps if the person who takes it is actually able to work it. Frekyl builds the outreach list from the rules your organisation already operates by, so the offer reaches the right people the first time.

Frekyl executes the communication workflow according to your configured rules. It does not set staffing policy or independently validate clinical credentials.

Configured per unit and facility
7 rule types
Role
RN · LPN · CNA
Unit
Competency by area
Credential
As recorded in your system
Location
Site or campus
Hours worked
Against the period you define
Seniority
Order you specify
Overtime & agreement rules
Union and internal policy
Coverage IQ

Know when staffing risk is building

Set how many absences each unit can absorb before coverage is at risk. Coverage IQ counts absences against that threshold and alerts the people who own that area while there is still time to act.

Absences against threshold
Next shift · East Campus
Within threshold
Threshold reached
Unit
Absences
Threshold
3 West · Med-surg
1
4
25%
ICU
1
3
33%
Emergency
4
4
100%
5 North · Telemetry
3
3
100%
Emergency and 5 North have reached their absence threshold for the next shift. Unit managers and central staffing alerted.
Frekyl Attendance
Text Message · SMS · Today 05:12
Sick
Please reply with your Employee ID to report your absence.
2222
Hi Ferris Bueller, you’ve reported 3 absences YTD. If you wish to continue reporting an absence please click:
Tap to Load Preview
app.frekyl.com
›
Shift Filling callout started automatically at 05:13
Absence Reporting

Capture the call-off cleanly so coverage can start immediately

Shift filling can only be as fast as the moment the absence is known. Frekyl takes the call-off by text or automated call and turns it into a structured record that triggers the callout without anyone re-keying it.

Reported by SMS or IVR — no app, no login, at any hour
Guided prompts capture reason, shift, unit and expected return
Managers and central staffing notified by your routing rules
Acknowledgement stops the escalation; silence moves it on
Every step timestamped against the shift it affected
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Agency Connect

When internal coverage isn’t enough, escalate without restarting

Agency requests follow the same workflow and the same record — in the sequence and intervals you have agreed, with preferred agencies first.

Stage 1
Internal staff
Your own callout procedure runs first, to the eligible pool.
Stage 2
Agency escalation
Preferred agencies requested automatically, in your order.
A nurse in navy scrubs on a hospital unit reading a message on her phone, with the corridor and nurses station active behind her
App-free communication

Reach staff without asking them to adopt another app

Deskless teams, shared workstations and mixed technology adoption. SMS and automated voice reach everyone on the roster — nothing to install, nothing to log into.

Frekyl shift awarded card — J. Okonkwo, RN accepted from the callout for 4 West, East Tower, today 07:00 to 19:00, filled in seven minutes
Broadcast Notifications

Reach the whole workforce when operations change

Separate from shift filling — for the moments you need to tell a unit, a campus or everyone something, and know it landed.

Severe weather
Facility closure
Emergency staffing notice
Schedule change
Site-specific update
Broadcast · East Campus
04:52
Overnight weather — entrances B and C are closed. Report via the main entrance. Shift start times are unchanged.
Recipients
486
Delivered
479
Integrations

Works alongside the systems you already use

Frekyl runs standalone. Where integrated, workforce and absence data can flow between Frekyl and your existing HR or workforce systems.

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Workday, UKG, SAP, Dayforce, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Oracle, Zenefits, BambooHR, ADP, Paychex, Paylocity, gusto, Snowflake and Google BigQuery shown alongside Frekyl
Healthcare environments

Built for settings where the shift has to be covered

Wherever coverage depends on who is qualified and available right now.

A hospital nursing unit with clinical staff at the station and the corridor active behind them
Hospitals & health systems
Acute care, med-surg, emergency and perioperative units — including multi-site systems where the rules differ by campus.
Also built for
Long-term care
Resident care that continues regardless of who called off.
Skilled nursing
Credential-dependent coverage across every shift.
Behavioral health
Teams where competency and continuity both matter.
24/7 care environments
Nights, weekends and rotating patterns — where a 02:00 call-off still needs a manager to know and a shift to be filled.

When staffing changes, the shift still has to be covered

See how Frekyl helps healthcare teams move from call-off to coverage with less manual coordination.

What we’ll work through
Your units, shift patterns and coverage levels
Your callout, eligibility and award rules
One real call-off, walked end to end