Tag: ukg-alternatives

UKG (formerly Kronos) is an enterprise workforce management suite built for health systems with 200+ beds, dedicated IT departments, and 6-12 month implementation timelines. Small hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals that ended up on UKG through a health system contract are finding they bought a system they cannot operate. Here are the practical alternatives.

UKG (formerly Kronos) requires a 6-12 month implementation, dedicated IT and HRIS staff, and a $150,000-$500,000 implementation budget. These requirements exist for a reason: UKG is built for large health systems. For a 25-bed Critical Access Hospital, those requirements represent a system the facility cannot operate. Here is what actually works at CAH scale.