Case Study: Kindred at Home achieves a 751% ROI in less than two months with Workday Adaptive Planning

National healthcare provider achieves a 751% ROI in less than two months

Kindred at Home, one of the largest post‑acute home healthcare providers in the U.S. (serving ~350,000 patients from 600+ locations in 40 states), faced a fragmented, acquisition‑driven budgeting process. Budgeting was slow and error‑prone—run in spreadsheets and legacy on‑prem tools—often managed by nurse leaders with limited finance training, making it hard to handle Medicare reimbursement changes, reorganizations, and timely consolidation; the company’s budget cycle stretched to five months and constrained finance collaboration.

Kindred deployed Workday Adaptive Planning in a three‑month, phased rollout to ~500 users, simplifying local forecasts, automating updates, and standardizing the model. The change cut the budget cycle to three months, freed up about two months of finance time for strategic work, sped board‑book prep from a week to hours, eliminated legacy software/consulting costs, and delivered a 751% ROI in under two months — roughly $350k per year and over $1M in savings across three years.

Kindred at Home

Aimee McCorkle

Vice President, Business Operations