Ellis Medicine case study

$800K+ Saved By Fixing Their Ghosting Problem: How One Hospital System Earned It

How Ellis Medicine gained this - and much more.
Click Boarding Case Studies - The Client
The Client

Ellis Medicine is a privately-held teaching healthcare system offering an extensive array of inpatient and outpatient services.

For over 100 years, this mid-sized hospital is committed to seeking new solutions that achieve better outcomes, reduce hospital stays and lower costs for patients.

Click Boarding Case Studies - The Challenge
The Challenge

When the Ellis Medicine team approached Click Boarding in 2022, their outlook on employee onboarding was bleak:

  • A new hire ghosting rate of 53% … a majority of candidates who accepted a role never filled the position, leading to re-work and re-hiring processes
  • Time-to-completion for new hire onboarding was over 100 days on average .

Participating team members from HR, IT, Operations and Compliance all stressed the manual and disconnected nature of all employee transitions – from preboarding all the way through offboarding.

Ellis Medicine was operating with a home-grown, custom built IT platform; HR systems tied to background checks, payroll, verifications, and more were completely disconnected. This resulted in duplicative work on behalf of onboarding coordinators who constantly chased new hires and internal team members to complete manual, paper-based tasks and steps.

Not to mention the multiple requests for new hires to actually visit a facility in person to complete activities, such as i-9 documentation, occupational health details, and other miscellaneous forms.

Perhaps the biggest challenge for the Ellis team was the lack of visibility into progress. When hiring managers and supporting staff members couldn’t check on the status of employee activities, they were left in the dark. 

Click Boarding Case Studies - The Need
The Need

As a complex hospital system, Ellis Medicine’s preboarding and onboarding needs included various intricacies to ensure regulatory compliance and standards, as well as the various policies and procedures required in the healthcare sector.

These non-negotiable demands took shape in the following use cases that Ellis set out to solve for, such as:

  • Speed up time for preboarding activities such as background checks, fully-remote I-9 verifications, eliminating in-person paperwork visits, and connecting these processes to automated credential requests
  • Automatically connect to Occupational Health for status.
  • Deploy IT procurement for equipment needs and system access (i.e. email creation).
  • Enable process flows to crossboard existing employees for internal transitions.
  • Support employee exit experiences through compliant offboarding workflows.

They knew they needed a vendor specialized in fully compliant, modern employee experiences.

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The Outcome
By automating preboarding and onboarding, the ROI was obvious.

They knew their onboarding drop-offs and timelines, making the business case airtight. This helped transition the hospital’s HR division from a cost center to a revenue-generating function. In the words of their CHRO, “together we created a true fix to their daunting list of problems.”

With ghosting dropping, they saved $800K+ annually … and over $22,000 per new nursing hire.

How? Here’s the math:

Ghosting:

  • 600 hires annually with a 56% ghosting rate = 312 re-hires.
  • Rounding down, 300 annual hires x $5,745 average cost per hire for non-executive roles (source: SHRM 2025 benchmarking) = $1.6M total
  • Even accounting for conservative estimates in every area, that’s still over $800K saved in re-hiring costs

Nursing hires:

  • Every day left unfilled is $266 / day cost (source: 2024 BLS data for healthcare)
  • Reducing onboarding by 86 days = $22K saved
Pre-Click
Before Click Boarding:
Post-Click
After Click Boarding:

Aside from these hard and fast stats that prove the impact Ellis Medicine has seen, there’s a laundry list of post-implementation benefits and improvements that must be acknowledged. And while they aren’t always quantifiable, we’ll take the anecdotal comments of relief and smiles of success any day!

  • Process Efficiency: Ellis has gone from mountains of paperwork and manual trails to an automated solution that just works. As a result, teams can focus on meaningful work.
  • Unmatched Compliance: Ellis is confident in meeting compliance standards and certification requirements in healthcare. Click removes the potential for human error, verifying data integrity and accuracy along the way.
  • Fully-automated Workflows: Click Boarding connects the dots in a synchronized cadence between the various new hire tasks, accessible for the internal team members in one comprehensive view. Equipped with automatic notifications.
  • Integrated Ecosystem: Click was built for integration at scale. Ellis’ unique technology stack now works together in concert given our open API network and flexible options.
  • End-to-end Lifecycles: Ellis leverages Click’s intuitive and configurable workflows for employees from Day 0 through an exit. As such, employees feel supported and prepared for what’s next.
So what?
If you’re struggling with manual, disconnected employee onboarding and transitions, take a hint from Ellis Medicine.

The longer you wait, the farther you become from optimal experiences… and the more it hurts your bottom line.

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