Care Connection
The reality of margins

Find the cash leakage. Keep more value in care.

The same connected data that organises the care day also shows where money slips between systems. Every finding links to evidence. Every decision stays with your people.

Review-only by design. No system replacement project.

Why now

Margins are under pressure. Every decision counts.

Most residential providers are running at a loss, and labour is where the gap lands.

Homes under pressure
62%

of surveyed homes operated at a loss.

Up from 49% a year earlier.

Average operating result
−$9.16

per bed, per day.

Down from a $0.91 surplus a year earlier.

Costs versus revenue
11.7%

growth in direct care costs, versus 6.6% revenue growth.

Compared with the prior year.

Source: StewartBrown Aged Care Financial Performance Survey, nine months to March 2026. Survey benchmarks, not a recoverable leakage rate.

The six leakages

Six places aged care quietly leaks cash.

Each one sits between systems that work as designed on their own. Care Connection reconciles across them.

01

Workforce & rostering

Avoidable overtime, agency cover, penalty exposure and casual loading where permanent capacity exists.

“My roster is compliant. It’s also more expensive than it needs to be, and I can’t tell which shifts had to be agency and which just always are.”— Chief Operating Officer

Live in the partner trial
02

Payroll & award

Misapplied classifications, penalty settings and manual overrides that drift. Exposure runs both ways.

“Payroll runs, and only then do I find out something was classified wrong. I’m auditing after the money has gone.”— Chief Financial Officer

Next in the build
03

AN-ACC funding

Residents whose documented care needs have changed without a funding review. Flagged for clinicians, never reclassified automatically.

“The progress notes already show a resident needs more support. Nobody connects that to a funding review until someone happens to notice.”— Director of Nursing

Next in the build
04

Occupancy & admissions

Avoidable vacant-bed days from slow referrals, missing paperwork, delayed agreements and room turnaround.

“By the time the occupancy report lands, we’ve lost three weeks of revenue on beds nobody chased.”— Chief Executive Officer

Next in the build
05

Support at Home revenue

Services delivered but not claimed, wrong codes or units, rejected claims and negative-margin visits.

“The budget, the care plan and what we delivered live in three places. Reconciling them by hand is the whole job.”— Support at Home Manager

Next in the build
06

Procurement & invoices

Duplicate invoices, contract price drift, off-contract buying and unmanaged increases.

“Hundreds of contracts across a dozen sites. I wouldn’t know if we’d paid a duplicate invoice for a year.”— Procurement Manager

Next in the build

Live now: workforce and rostering, in the partner trial. The other five are built in order, with partners setting the priority.

Which one first?

Quotes are composites of what provider leaders tell us, credited by role. They are not individual testimonials.

How it works

Find it. Validate it. Reduce the repeat cost.

The same loop runs in every domain. A person reviews every finding.

Worked exampleAgency cover is booked for a vacant shift. If an eligible internal worker was available at a lower total cost, the difference points to a saving on future shifts. The alternative must have been genuinely feasible. A cheaper theoretical option is not enough.
A financial control, not a staffing cutThe target is cost that added no care value. Care requirements stay central to every option.
  1. Spot the leakage

    Compare rosters, timesheets, payroll, invoices and care records to find where the story stops lining up.

  2. Check the alternative

    Cost a feasible option against the rules, qualifications and care requirements. Link every finding to its evidence.

  3. Track the value

    Agree an owner and an action, then track recurrence and validated savings against a baseline.

Talk to us

Tell us where you think the money is going.

A short scoping conversation with no obligation. We will tell you honestly whether Care Connection fits and which domain is worth a first look.

  • Providers: pick the domain that hurts most.
  • Consultants: ask about the partner programmes.
  • Real or synthetic data, with scope agreed first.

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