Case Study: Ironwood Cancer and Research achieves seamless HR scalability and rapid onboarding with ADP

Seamlessly Adapting Through Rapid Growth

Ironwood Cancer and Research Centers, a Phoenix-based healthcare provider with 21 locations and about 700 employees, faced the challenges of rapid growth—expanding from 2 locations and 130 employees to its current size—while a one-person HR team managed payroll, onboarding, recruiting, benefits and daily HR tasks. Manual processes and disparate systems made onboarding and payroll difficult to scale.

By implementing ADP’s integrated suite (payroll, timekeeping, recruiting, onboarding, screening, analytics and an employee portal plus a dedicated account manager), Ironwood centralized employee data, automated onboarding for 10–20 new hires weekly, and cut onboarding time roughly in half. The result: faster payroll processing, improved recruiting efficiency, actionable retention analytics, and a single HR administrator able to manage the organization more effectively while boosting employee engagement.

Ironwood Cancer and Research

Kerri Fama

Director of Human Resources