Enter your visit load and staff
Add total visits needed per day, number of active field staff, and each staff member's available hours per day.
STAFF CAPACITY VS. DEMAND
Home Care Flow Capacity Checker
Enter your visit load and staff numbers to get a calculated capacity-utilization score for your home-care schedule.
- Uses your inputs in a transparent calculation
- Instant result with practical next steps
- No signup required
Planning guidance only. Validate important decisions with customer evidence and your delivery team.
YOUR INPUTS
Build your result
Complete every field. The result updates only when you choose Calculate.
How it works
Add visit and travel time
Average visit duration plus the travel buffer between visits determines how much staff time each visit really costs.
See required vs. available staff-hours
We calculate total required staff-hours from your visit load and compare it against available staff-hours to produce a capacity utilization score.
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Frequently asked questions
How is the capacity score calculated?
Required staff-hours is visits per day multiplied by (average visit time plus travel buffer), converted to hours. Available staff-hours is active staff multiplied by their daily available hours. The score is required divided by available, expressed as a percentage.
What does a score over 100 mean?
It means the visits you need to complete require more staff-hours than you currently have available — a sign of overload that risks missed or rushed visits.
Does this account for staff skill matching or patient preferences?
No — it's a capacity-volume calculation only, not a full scheduling optimizer. It tells you whether your total staff time is sufficient, not which specific staff member should see which patient.
Why include a travel buffer separately from visit time?
Travel time between home visits is real, billable staff time that doesn't produce care directly. Ignoring it consistently understates how much staff capacity a visit schedule actually needs.
Is this medical or clinical advice?
No. This tool is an operational and administrative planning aid only. It does not provide medical, clinical, or legal advice, and it does not diagnose any condition. It also does not store or transmit real patient data — all calculation happens client-side in your browser, with no backend involved.
Can I use this for a multi-location agency?
Run it separately for each location or team, since travel patterns and staff availability typically differ by area.
How We Compare
| Feature | MVPHub | AlayaCare | WellSky Personal Care |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quick capacity-vs-demand check | Included | Limited | Limited |
| Full scheduling, EVV, and billing platform | Not included | Included | Included |
| No account or onboarding required to try | Included | Not included | Not included |
| Staff-to-patient skill and preference matching | Not included | Included | Included |
AlayaCare and WellSky Personal Care are full home-care operations platforms covering scheduling, EVV, and billing. MVPHub gives a fast, no-setup capacity check to see whether your staffing roughly matches your visit load before you invest in a full platform.
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