Preparing Your Organization for Sustainable Labor Transformation

By | Posted on: May 7, 2012

Transforming the culture and practices associated with 60% of your organization’s operating expense – and the faces of care your… Read More >

Fiscal Year Budgets: Three High-ROI Labor Management Initiatives

By | Posted on: April 23, 2012

Healthcare executives across the country are neck-deep in difficult budget conversations, especially those organizations where July 1 signals the start… Read More >

Contingency Staff – Keys to Assembling All-Star Pools

By | Posted on: April 9, 2012

My previous blog post established that having an array of reliable sources to expand your workforce during times of high… Read More >

Contingency Staff – The Seven Layer Recipe

By | Posted on: March 20, 2012

Your challenge – issued in one of my recent blog posts – is to put a smile on your CFO’s… Read More >

What to Look for at AONE 2012

By | Posted on: March 12, 2012

The 45th Annual AONE Meeting and Exposition looks to be one of the best yet, assuming the March Boston weather… Read More >

Five Healthcare Labor Management Strategies That Drive Savings

By | Posted on: February 28, 2012

Avantas recently released a white paper titled, Focusing on the Controllable: Five Strategies for Hospitals to Hedge Against Uncertainty. In… Read More >

Reflections on HIMSS 2012

By | Posted on: February 24, 2012

During the 2012 HIMSS Conference I tweeted: “What is more overwhelming, the conference floor at HIMSS or the hashtag #HIMSS…”… Read More >

Hospital Core Staff – What is the Right Size?

By | 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 | 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 | 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 >