Your employee handbook can do much more than list policies. It should reflect how your practice actually works, set clear expectations for your team, and give you a foundation you can rely on when employee issues come up.
With CEDR, your handbook is built by experts, for you and with you. We learn how your business operates, gather your input, do the hard work of building and customizing your policies, and help you understand how the handbook works before you put it into practice.
This is not a template, a DIY builder, or a generic policy packet. It is a professionally customized HR foundation designed to help protect your practice, guide your managers, and support better decisions when real-world people problems arise.
The finish line is a handbook you understand, trust, and know how to use.
Paired with any of our memberships, your CEDR employee handbook stays updated for the life of your business.
See CEDR Membership optionsMost practice owners start by looking for an employee handbook because they know they need clear policies in place. That instinct is right.
The real value is not simply having something to give employees. A strong handbook becomes the roadmap for how your team operates. It defines expectations, supports consistent management, and gives you a clearer foundation for handling attendance, leave, performance, discipline, documentation, and other employee issues.
A handbook can only serve that role if it fits your business and you understand how to use it.
Get Started with a HandbookYour handbook needs to match your culture and be easy to understand so your team and managers can stay on the same page.
Get the HR foundation right from day one with exclusive support designed for new practice owners.
Learn more about HR Headstart™Many handbook providers focus on spending as little time with you as possible. They give you a document, a builder, or policy packet and leave you to figure out if it fits your business, follows the right laws, and gives your managers something they can actually use.
CEDR takes the opposite approach. We learn how your practice works, ask the right questions, customize the policies, answer your questions, and spend the time needed to help you understand what is in your handbook and why it matters.
Others try to minimize the time they spend with you. We spend the time it takes to get your handbook right, and it is not finished until you approve it.
Our guided process makes sure the right questions are asked, the correct policies are built, and the finished handbook is something you know how to use.
7,019 professionally customized employee handbooks created for healthcare employers.
You may purchase a CEDR Employee Handbook by itself. When you pair it with Opening Act or Premier Advisor, the handbook price drops by $600 and ongoing handbook updates are included with the membership.
If you are not satisfied with your employee handbook within 30 days of delivery, we will refund the amount paid for the handbook, less the monthly support fee. You keep the handbook.
Handbook Only
Choose the handbook-only path when your immediate priority is putting clear, professionally customized policies in place.
Software Membership
Add backstageHR® software for documents, signatures, employee records, timekeeping, PTO, HIPAA training, and compliance organization.
Software + Expert HR Support
Add backstageHR® and direct access to CEDR’s HR experts for everyday questions, employee issues, and higher-risk decisions.
Payroll is optional. CEDR White-Glove Payroll™ can be added to Opening Act or Premier Advisor when you want payroll connected to the CEDR timekeeping system.
That work matters. Send it to us. Your current handbook can tell us how your business operates, what matters to you, what expectations you have tried to set, and which policies may be unique to your workplace.
We will review what you have, keep the useful and appropriate parts, improve language that needs work, remove language that may create problems, and add anything important that is missing.
We also will not simply patch an old document and call it finished. The goal is a professionally customized CEDR handbook built the right way, using your existing handbook as valuable source material where it helps.
Talk to Us About Your Current HandbookThe result is not a patched-up version of your old book. It is a handbook you understand, trust, and know how to use it.
A strong handbook should explain the policies, expectations, and procedures that shape how your practice operates every day. The exact content depends on your business, locations, workforce, and applicable laws.
Workplace expectations and employee conduct
Attendance, punctuality, scheduling, and timekeeping
PTO, sick leave, holidays, and leave policies
Wage-and-hour policies and documentation
Confidentiality, privacy, HIPAA, and patient-facing professionalism
Performance management, corrective action, and discipline
Harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and complaint procedures
Required state, local, and federal policies
Employee acknowledgments and signed records
The goal is the right handbook for your practice: clear, usable, professionally customized, and built to support better decisions when employee issues come up.
Healthcare practices face employee issues that generic handbook products are not built to handle well. Managers wear multiple hats. Schedules are busy. Teams work directly with patients or clients. Leave, documentation, pay, performance, confidentiality, and compliance pressures often overlap.
CEDR works with healthcare practices every day. That experience shapes the questions we ask, the policies we build, and the practical guidance that goes into your handbook.
Since 2006, CEDR has helped independent healthcare practices build stronger policies, manage employee issues, and create better HR systems.
That experience is built into every handbook, software tool, compliance resource, and expert recommendation we provide.
CEDR creates professionally customized employee handbooks for independent healthcare practices across many specialties. The policies are built around how your practice works, the employee roles on your team, and the employment laws that apply to your business.
Every CEDR employee handbook includes three months of Premier Advisor support at no additional cost.
That means your support does not end when your handbook is completed. As you begin putting your policies into practice, CEDR’s HR experts are available to help you work through employee questions, apply your handbook, and address real HR issues with greater confidence.
A template can help you understand common policy categories. It does not know your state, local requirements, industry, culture, or how your team operates.
The hard part is not filling in blanks. It is knowing what belongs, what should be left out, how the policies affect one another, and what language could create problems later.
Read before you use a free templateIf you are launching a new practice, buying an existing one, or stepping into ownership for the first time, your employee handbook is one of the first HR foundations to put in place.
You are making decisions now that will shape how your team operates later: how employees are hired, onboarded, scheduled, paid, managed, corrected, documented, and supported. Getting those expectations right from the beginning can prevent confusion, reduce risk, and give you a clearer path as your team grows.
That is why CEDR offers CEDR’s HR Headstart™ for new and future practice owners. Headstart gives qualifying new owners access to practical HR guidance, startup support, and special discount opportunities so you can build your people systems the right way from the beginning.
A CEDR Employee Handbook is a professionally customized workplace policy document built for healthcare practices. CEDR learns how the business operates, gathers employer input, customizes the handbook to applicable state, local, and federal employment laws, and delivers the finished handbook in HR Vault® for employee distribution and signatures.
It is designed to set clear expectations, support confident leadership, help protect the business, and serve as the policy foundation for backstageHR® software and Premier Advisor expert HR support.
Yes. A CEDR Employee Handbook may be purchased by itself. When you purchase it with Opening Act or Premier Advisor, the handbook price is reduced by $600.
Ongoing handbook updates are included when your CEDR handbook is paired with Opening Act or Premier Advisor.
Send it to us. We use it as source material, preserve what is useful and appropriate, remove or improve risky language, add what is missing, and build a professionally customized CEDR handbook rather than simply patching the old document.
CEDR builds and customizes the handbook through an interactive process. We also explain the policies, answer your questions, and help you understand how to use the handbook before rollout.
Your handbook should reflect how your business operates, the laws that apply to your employees, and the expectations you want managers and employees to follow. Generic language often cannot do that reliably.
Healthcare practices have patient-facing teams, confidentiality obligations, clinical and administrative roles, scheduling pressure, leave issues, documentation needs, and other workplace realities that generic handbooks often do not address well.
Templates and DIY builders leave you responsible for deciding what applies, what should be removed, how policies interact, and whether the language creates risk. CEDR guides the process and does the customization work with you.
No. CEDR provides practical HR guidance, compliance support, and professionally customized HR products for employers. CEDR HR Solutions is not a law firm.
A finished document is not enough. Your handbook should fit your practice, reflect the laws that apply to you, support your leadership, and give you a practical foundation for handling employee issues with more confidence.
CEDR puts the hard work on us, guides you through the process, and helps you get across the finish line with a handbook customized by experts.
