Employee Experience Insights

Healthcare employee experience platform

You'll know before they give notice.

Swell is the healthcare employee experience platform for multi-location groups — the agent runs anonymous pulse surveys, tracks eNPS, and flags retention risk by location and role before it shows up on Glassdoor.

Built for dental and specialty groups running 20 to 500+ locations.

Engagement heatmap

Which locations are about to lose their best people?

The healthcare employee engagement software most groups own can tell you the company average. Swell's organizational heatmap shows engagement and eNPS by location, department, and question category — pick a region to drop into its locations, and select any cell for the theme Swell pulled from that team's own words.

Region
Departments × regions
eNPS · rolling 4 weeks
Critical
At risk
Watch
Steady
Thriving
Turnover math

What your current turnover rate costs

Move the inputs to match your group. The answer is a range on purpose — anyone quoting you a single number is selling.

50
20%
Estimated annual turnover cost

Assumes $10K–$30K per clinical hire in recruiting, onboarding, temporary coverage, and lost production. Where you land depends on role mix and time to fill.

Annual Savings — Cutting Turnover 15%

Overview

What does a healthcare employee experience platform actually do?

A healthcare employee experience platform replaces the annual engagement survey with a continuous feedback loop built for clinical operations. Swell sends short anonymous pulse surveys on a cadence employees will actually answer, then turns the responses into something a regional ops director can act on Monday morning.

eNPS and engagement scores roll up by region, brand, location, department, and role. Open-ended comments cluster by theme. The Swell agent flags the locations where sentiment is sliding and tells you which categories are driving it — compensation, workload, manager, career path — so coaching conversations start with evidence, not anecdotes.

The lag

An annual survey tells you what your workforce felt nine months ago

Scrub the year. One clinic, one hygienist, three ways of finding out.

Week 1
What actually happened
Mesa Dental · Hygiene
The annual survey cycle
One data point a year
With Employee Experience Insights
Weekly pulse, running underneath
Week 1Week 26Week 52

Swell had the signal in week 6. She resigned in week 28. The survey reported it in week 39.

An annual engagement survey is a lagging indicator by design. It is a photograph of a year you have already paid for.

How it works

How do employee pulse surveys for multi-location healthcare actually work?

Nobody on your team writes a question or builds a survey. Swell ships a calibrated pulse cadence on day one, routes the right questions to the right roles, and reads what comes back. Three moving parts — none of them are yours.

1

The pulse goes out

Four questions by text, every week, to clinical staff. Swell writes them, sends them, and follows up with the people who did not answer.

Tuesday 9:02 AM
Quick check-in from Mesa Dental — 4 questions, under a minute. How was your week?
12345
2

Answers roll up

Every response lands against a department, location, region, and role. eNPS becomes a line you can watch, not a number you get once a year.

Response rate · week 24
Hygiene78%
Front Office71%
Assistants66%
3

AI names the theme

Open-ended answers get read for recurring themes and sentiment. You get “compensation, at four Texas locations” — not a 6.4 with no explanation attached.

Recurring themes · 212 answers
Direct manager87 · negative
Scheduling59 · mixed
Materials & equipment34 · positive
Employer brand

Glassdoor and Indeed reputation monitoring, handled

Your employer brand lives on Glassdoor and Indeed whether you manage it or not. A 3.4 quietly thins your applicant flow, and the candidates who do apply arrive already skeptical. Swell watches your ratings across the group, sends review invites to the employees who are already engaged, and surfaces themes the same way it does for patient reviews — flagging a single location before its candidate pipeline dries up.

Glassdoor monitoringIndeed monitoringReview invites to engaged staff
In depth

eNPS, action items, and turning feedback into decisions

How does eNPS work across a multi-location healthcare group?

eNPS in a multi-location group only matters when you can see it by location, brand, and role — not as one rolled-up number that hides the locations in trouble. Swell calculates employer net promoter score after every pulse cycle and shows the trend per clinic, per department, and per manager. A CHRO sees the network; a regional director sees the five locations sliding this quarter; an office manager sees their own team's score and the comments behind it.

Action items prioritized before anything escalates

Swell ranks feedback by urgency and routes it to the person who can actually fix it. A spike in negative comments about workload at one clinic becomes a ticket for that regional manager, with the survey context attached. A drop in eNPS for a single department becomes a flagged item on the leadership digest. Office managers stop hunting through dashboards for what matters this week; the platform tells them.

How does Swell turn employee feedback into something a leader can act on?

Raw comments don't drive decisions. Swell clusters open-ended responses into the themes that matter — workload, schedule, manager quality, pay clarity — and tags each theme with the locations and roles it's showing up in. Sentiment scores roll up alongside eNPS so the leadership digest reads in a minute. The platform tells you what to fix and where; your team does the fixing.

Why healthcare-specific, and not a generalist tool?

Nobody on your hygiene team is going to answer a question about cross-functional collaboration. They will tell you about the autoclave, the schedule, and their regional manager. Swell's question categories are written for clinical environments, its benchmarks compare DSOs to DSOs, and its retention predictors are the ones that actually move in a clinic.

Features

Employee engagement & eNPS features

A continuous feedback loop built for clinical operations — no survey-writing required.

Turnkey setup

Upload an employee list or connect via API and start gathering feedback automatically.

Automated pulse surveys

No writing questions or building surveys — Swell's pulse surveys go out automatically each week.

Employer reputation

Monitor and manage your reputation on Glassdoor and Indeed, and send employee review invites.

Actionable insights

The agent reads every comment, clusters themes by location and role, and surfaces what to act on first.

Detailed analytics

View anonymized responses and organize by department, question category, location, and brand.

Organizational heatmaps

See which departments need attention, and in which question categories, at a glance.

Why Swell

Healthcare employee experience platform vs a generalist HR survey tool

Generalist engagement tools were built for desks, not operatories. They benchmark you against tech companies, ship templates that don't speak to clinical roles, and treat your 80-location group as one tenant with one number.

Swell — built for multi-location healthcare

  • Question categories written for clinical environments
  • Retention predictors: direct manager, materials & equipment, schedule
  • Heatmaps across 80+ locations, filterable by region
  • One short weekly pulse by text — turnkey after setup
  • Glassdoor & Indeed monitoring in the same platform
  • Patient and employee signal connect at the location level

Generalist review / survey tools

  • Templates built for desk jobs, not clinical roles
  • Benchmarks you against tech companies
  • Treats an 80-location group as one tenant, one number
  • Survey design and distribution is your team's job
  • No employer-reputation monitoring
  • Survey data siloed from everything else
Proof

Healthcare groups that trust Swell

Real results from multi-location groups running reputation and patient experience on Swell.

Next Level Urgent Care
1,552%increase in monthly review volume
1,640reviews collected in the first 4 months
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Sierra Neurosurgery Group
1,311%increase in monthly review volume
4.92average Google rating
24%invite-to-review conversion
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Smile Doctors
222%increase in monthly review volume
36,000+NPS surveys completed
500+locations on Swell
9%invite-to-review conversion
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Utah Orthopaedic Specialists
10%increase in average review score
15%invite-to-review conversion
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“The support that Swell offers was more than others could offer. NPS data has been incredible to have, and review volume has increased tremendously.”
Ansley Taylor — Marketing Specialist, Smile Doctors

One platform. The entire practice experience.

One AI agent and one data layer across reputation, patient experience, and employee experience — so a survey complaint, a Google review, and a staffing issue at the same location all connect.

Online Reputation Management

AI-powered review generation and response for MSOs, DSOs, and consolidated healthcare groups. The agent reads every review and drafts on-brand, HIPAA-compliant responses for one-click approval.

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Patient Experience Insights

Surveys after every visit. Open-ended comments cluster by location and provider, so operational issues surface before they show up in your ratings.

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Employee Experience Insights

Anonymous pulse surveys that detect retention risk by location, department, and role — early enough to act, before it hits Glassdoor.

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Integrations

How does a multi-location group get started?

Upload an employee list or connect via API — Swell ships a calibrated pulse cadence on the first cycle, and a dedicated onboarding team configures hierarchy, brands, and benchmarks so reporting works on day one.

Employee CSVAPISSO / SAMLSFTPHRIS sync+ more
FAQ

Employee experience platform FAQ

What is a healthcare employee experience platform?
A healthcare employee experience platform is the system multi-location healthcare groups use to run continuous pulse surveys, track eNPS, monitor employer reputation on Glassdoor and Indeed, and surface retention risk by location. Swell is built for DSOs, MSOs, and consolidated specialty networks, with benchmarks, role libraries, and reporting hierarchies designed for clinical operations.
How does eNPS software for healthcare differ from a horizontal engagement platform?
eNPS software for healthcare benchmarks you against peers in your specialty, ships clinical-role question sets, and rolls scores up by region, brand, location, and department the way multi-location groups are actually organized. Horizontal tools benchmark you against software companies and treat your network as a single tenant.
How does Swell monitor Glassdoor and Indeed reputation?
Swell monitors employer reviews on Glassdoor and Indeed continuously, sends review invites to current employees to keep the picture honest, and clusters themes the same way it does for patient reviews. The agent flags location-level reputation drops as they happen and ties them back to the internal pulse-survey signal.
How quickly can a multi-location group go live?
Days, not months. Upload an employee list or connect via API, and Swell ships its calibrated pulse cadence on the first cycle. A dedicated onboarding team configures hierarchy, brands, and benchmarks so reporting works on day one.
Is Swell HIPAA compliant?
Yes. Swell is HIPAA compliant and SOC 2 Type II certified, hosted on U.S.-based healthcare-grade infrastructure. Anonymous employee responses stay anonymous, and access controls map to your existing brand and region hierarchy.

You already know which of your locations this is about.

Bring that one. We'll walk through your locations, your current eNPS picture, and the soonest places the agent would catch retention risk — with someone who has run this for groups your size.

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One agent. Every employee. Every location.