Clinic staffing models by patient volume for a reason: a provider working alone can see maybe 35 patients a day before things fall apart, and every tier above that adds specific roles — a second front-desk person, a dedicated triage nurse, eventually a second provider. Get the ratios wrong and you either pay for idle staff or you have patients waiting on a nurse who’s also supposed to be rooming, drawing labs, and covering front desk.
Five roles, not three
I originally built the clinic sample around Nurse, Aide, and Triage coverage. It was missing the person who actually treats patients. The updated version adds Physician as its own demand — baseline coverage all day, bumped to two providers during the midday peak — plus FrontDesk as a separate administrative demand instead of folding registration into nursing hours. Triage stays a “concurrent” demand: it doesn’t need its own dedicated body, it needs a triage-qualified nurse to be on shift for some other reason at that slot, which is how real clinics actually cover it.
No more INFEASIBLE
Healthcare scheduling has a specific failure mode: hard legal minimums (contracted hours, required ratios) stacked on top of break rules can make a schedule mathematically impossible to build, and the honest answer — INFEASIBLE — tells a scheduling manager nothing useful. The engine treats minimums as elastic instead: falling short is allowed, but it costs, and shows up as a named flag like “Elizabeth is 4 hours below her weekly minimum” instead of a dead end. You get a schedule plus a to-do list, not a wall.
Try it with a clinic sample already loaded
The built-in sample is a 12-person outpatient clinic — nurses, aides, a triage rotation, two physicians, and front-desk staff, Monday through Saturday, 7am to 9pm.
Open the healthcare scheduler — no signup. Import your own roster and demand numbers once you’ve seen it solve the sample.
What it needs from you
A demand grid per role (how many nurses, aides, providers, front-desk staff you need by hour), an availability grid per person, and who’s qualified for what — a nurse who can also triage, a physician who can also see overflow. Break rules, weekly minimums, and the solver time limit are parameters you set once and reuse.
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