Abstract: Automated healthcare staffing systems and methods can include receiving statistical data from multiple data sources, calculating numerical values for data metrics, assigning confidence multipliers to the metrics, using the numerical values and confidence multipliers in a statistical model to compute a predicted patient census, generating and displaying a graphical representation of the predicted patient census, providing information regarding the number of nurses scheduled to work a future shift and the number of nurses that are needed for the shift based on the predicted patient census, assigning internal nurses to work the future shift if the need exceeds the number scheduled and internal nurses are available, and sending an alert to nurses employed by an outside staffing agency if the need exceeds the number scheduled and internal nurses are not available.