Hospital Core Staff – What is the Right Size?
By Lorane Kinney | Posted on: February 20, 2012
I issued a challenge in a recent blog. Find and harvest the low hanging fruit. I offered to help with… Read More >
Empower Nurses to Fight Fatigue
By Jackie Larson | Posted on: February 6, 2012
Are you too tired to care? A recent Sentinel Event Alert published by The Joint Commission called attention to health… Read More >
Hospitals, Nurses, Strategies: In Healthcare, Everything is Unique
By Lorane Kinney | Posted on: January 23, 2012
You are different… each health organization is unique. Even within a multi-site organization, each hospital can be as different as… Read More >
Forecasting Staffing Need with Predictive Analytics
By Chris Fox | Posted on: January 9, 2012
Predictive analytics is a hot topic in healthcare these days. IBM, for instance, created some buzz when it introduced its… Read More >
The Ins and Outs of the End-to-End – Part 1 of 5
By Jackie Larson | Posted on: December 28, 2011
Over the next few weeks I’ll dissect our end-to-end philosophy of labor management. There are five steps as illustrated below:… Read More >
CAN DO – A Brief Avantas History
By Lorane Kinney | Posted on: December 12, 2011
“We can do better than this.” This statement was the catalyst. It was 1998, a time much like today. Thought… Read More >
Break Out of the Silo
By Chris Fox | Posted on: December 1, 2011
Every day I get to talk with professionals from healthcare organizations around the country about their labor management hurdles. While… Read More >
Scheduling Nurses: ‘Just Scheduling’ Aims to End Favoritism
By Jackie Larson | Posted on: November 29, 2011
Have you ever wondered why another nurse is always called in for overtime (and incentive pay) instead of you? Or… Read More >
The Tie that Binds: Labor
By Jackie Larson | Posted on: November 21, 2011
From our perspective, there’s one common thread between financial, operational, and clinical outcomes: LABOR. Because labor is 60% or more… Read More >
End-to-End Labor Management
By Chris Fox | Posted on: November 8, 2011
The goal of labor management software should be to “operationalize” productivity. In other words, getting the right person to right… Read More >