Trusted Health Collaborates to Bring CareCast Workforce Demand Forecasting to Health Systems

Mayo Clinic's CareCast will be integrated into Trusted Works, laying the foundation for proactive staffing and clinician-centered scheduling

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Trusted Health, a healthcare workforce technology company, today announced a collaboration to bring Mayo Clinic's CareCast workforce demand forecasting technology to hospitals and health systems through Trusted Works.

Developed by Mayo Clinic, CareCast uses historical staffing, patient volume trends, and operational data to forecast future workforce demand. Under the agreement, Mayo Clinic will license CareCast to Trusted Health for integration into Trusted Works, its staffing and scheduling optimization platform, and commercialization to other health systems.

Trusted Works AI agents will utilize CareCast's forecasts to build schedules, surface coverage gaps, and fill open shifts. The agents will compare each plan to actual outcomes and feed the gaps back into the forecast, so accuracy compounds with every scheduling period.

Trusted Works is designed to add intelligence and automation across the workforce and scheduling systems health systems already use - modernizing operations while preserving established workflows and prior technology investments.

Executive perspectives

"Creating a better staff scheduling experience starts with understanding what our workforce and patients will need and using that insight to make work simpler, more connected, and more responsive," said Alissa Zimmerman, Vice-Chair, Enterprise Nursing Workforce Optimization with Mayo Clinic. "By anticipating workforce needs earlier and thoughtfully introducing more intelligent scheduling capabilities, we can reduce friction for staff and leaders, create greater transparency and flexibility, and better align our workforce resources with the needs of our patients."

"Forecasting is where intelligent workforce operations begin," said Lennie Sliwinski, Founder and CEO of Trusted Health. "By bringing CareCast into Trusted Works, we can help health systems anticipate their needs earlier, build better schedules, and secure the clinicians they need before gaps become urgent. Ultimately, this is about putting the right clinicians in the right place at the right time - for the patients who need them and the clinicians doing the work."

"This collaboration is a major step toward our vision of a workforce operating system for healthcare - one that anticipates demand, balances schedules, fills workforce gaps, and truly works for our clinicians," Sliwinski continued.

What's next

Beyond the initial CareCast integration, Mayo Clinic and Trusted Health will leverage the Trusted Works platform to improve clinician experience related to scheduling and staffing, informed by direct input from Mayo Clinic nurses and nursing leaders. Agentic capabilities will coordinate that work behind the scenes while respecting each hospital's policies, labor rules, and operational controls.

Trusted Health aims to create workforce operations that are more responsive to patient demand, more manageable for healthcare leaders, and more flexible for clinicians.

Mayo Clinic has a financial interest in the technology referenced in this press release. Mayo Clinic will use any revenue it receives to support its not-for-profit mission in patient care, education, and research.

About Trusted, Inc. Trusted, Inc. is a healthcare workforce technology company that builds products to power real-time, AI-driven decision-making and automation across the healthcare staffing and scheduling lifecycle. Through Trusted Health, clinicians get matched to flexible work. Through Trusted Works, its staffing and scheduling optimization platform, hospitals and health systems can anticipate workforce demand, optimize schedules, automate shift fulfillment, and plan external workforce needs. Founded in 2017 to help people everywhere get care, Trusted is based in San Francisco and backed by investors including Craft Ventures, Felicis, StepStone Group, Founder Collective, and Town Hall Ventures. Learn more at trustedhealth.com and works.ai.

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