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Former Avantas Board Member and Co-Founder Nominated as ACHE Chairwoman-elect
January 4, 2012 – Di Smalley, president and CEO of Mercy Health System of Oklahoma, and one of the founders of Avantas, has been nominated as chairwoman-elect for the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) for the 2012-13 session.
Once officially elected, Smalley will become the second Registered Nurse and the fourth female to hold the position since it was established in 1933.
“We are so proud of Di,” said Lorane Kinney, CEO of Avantas. “She was an integral part of Avantas in the early years and she continues to be a dear friend and trusted colleague as we move into our second decade. The ACHE could not have made a better choice to fill this role. She is a true pioneer and innovator.”
The election for the year-long appointment is scheduled for the Council of Regents meeting before the ACHE’s 55th Congress on Healthcare Leadership March, 19-22 in Chicago.
Click here to read the full release from Mercy.
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Mercy Chooses Smart Square as its Staff Scheduling Tool
OMAHA, Neb. (November 3, 2011) Mercy, the eighth-largest Catholic health care system in the U.S., has launched Avantas’s Smart Square scheduling software at 16 of its 30 hospitals in a four-state region including Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Avantas, an Omaha, Neb.-based company that provides best-practice work strategies for the health care industry, signed an agreement last year to provide its comprehensive staffing and scheduling tool to Mercy. Smart Square is being phased in at all hospitals across Mercy, with inpatient nursing units being the focus of Phase I,
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Johnson City Medical Center saves $550,000 with Smart Square®
Overtime & Agency usage down significantly in the first year using nurse scheduling software from Avantas.
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — Aug. 18/PR Newswire/– Johnson City Medical Center (JCMC), the 488 bed, Magnet- designated flagship hospital of Mountain States Health Alliance (MSHA), has seen dramatic savings in a slumping economy as a result of Smart Square, the enterprise scheduling software from Avantas.
One year after going live with Smart Square, JCMC has realized a savings of nearly $550,000 associated with overtime and external agency usage.
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Engagement Strategies Magazine
Mountain States Health Alliance: A ’3-D’ Solution to a Common People Problem
By Jennifer Aden Murnane, Ph.D., and Kathryn Wilhoit, Ph.Dc., RN, NEA-BC, FACHE
Webinar: www.engagementstrategiesonline.com
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Alegent Health goes live with Credential Feed from Smart Square
Smart Square, the nurse scheduling software from Avantas, keeps managers and staff aware of upcoming licensure expirations
Omaha, NE, January 5, 2010 Alegent Health, a hospital system known for superior quality and patient satisfaction, is using Smart Square to track and notify staff of licensure and credential information for its five metro Omaha hospitals.
Already being utilized to manage the 24/7 employee scheduling and staffing operations for nursing and non-nursing units across the organization, Smart Square is now being employed to automate what was once a time-consuming and paper-heavy task.
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Smart Square selected as Healthcare Scheduling Solution by Immanuel Senior Living
Partnership with Avantas to include Smart Square, Avantas Pools, and Staffing Resource Center
Omaha, NE, November 12, 2009 -/PR Newswire/- Already utilizing Avantas Pools to provide health professionals for their Assisted Living Communities in Omaha and Lincoln, Immanuel Senior Living and Avantas have expanded their relationship to include Avantas’ web-based scheduling software, Smart Square and the Staffing Resource Center.
With Smart Square, healthcare organizations can maximize core staff, reduce overtime and external agency, manage incentives, and quickly review and adjust daily labor utilization. With real-time analytics and interactive dashboards, Smart Square provides the means to make decisions based on accurate and timely data. Additionally, the Software as a Service (SaaS) framework upon which Smart Square is built results in fast implementations involving very little client IT support.
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Immanuel Senior Living partners with Avantas for Health Staffing Solution
Avantas expands its Healthcare Pool to serve Senior Health and Assisted Living Communities in Omaha and Lincoln.
Omaha, NE, November 4, 2009 -(PR.com)- Avantas is proud to announce a new partnership with Immanuel Senior Living to provide health professionals to their Assisted Living Communities in Omaha and Lincoln.
For over a decade, Avantas has established relationships with healthcare organizations to provide flexible and capable professionals to inpatient nursing and ancillary units.
This partnership with Immanuel Senior Living provides Avantas the opportunity to introduce its unique methodology of resource placement to Assisted Living Communities.
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Senator Ben Nelson Advocates for Avantas
2009-08-04
There is outstanding news today as Avantas and the looming crisis of workforce shortages in the health industry have received the attention of the highly esteemed and influential Senator from Nebraska, Ben Nelson.
After several meetings with Senator Nelson’s office, they became convinced that automation around the key issue of staffing should share the spotlight with EMR (electronic medical records) which has held the stage in discussions about healthcare reform. Health organizations have been enticed to advance their adoption of EMRs through promises of stimulus money under the ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act). Senator Nelson became convinced that Avantas and its array of work strategies for the health industry, especially our highly-evolved Predictive Model, deserved to be called out as a potential use for stimulus funding. Once Senator Nelson agreed to promote our cause, the decision related to the proper channel for this advocacy required much discussion and planning. In the end, all agreed the most appropriate entrance to this discussion was through the Health and Human Services Office, specifically the recently named National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Dr. David Blumenthal.
Click here to read Senator Ben Nelson’s letter to Dr. Blumenthal sent on August 4, 2009.
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SAS® helps power Avantas’ innovative staffing solution
© SAS 2009
2009-06-23By taking years of data and industry expertise and pairing it with SAS Forecast Server, Avantas helps client hospitals spend more time on patient care and less time staffing their units. With SAS, Avantas has grown its staffing forecast business without increasing its work force.
The Omaha, NE, company is recognized for proven, best-practice work strategies for the health industry and provides staffing forecasts to 22 hospitals (200 units) nationwide as part of its Smart Square® staffing solution. Avantas’ offering helps hospitals spend less time on administrative staffing tasks and more time on improving the quality of patient care at the nursing-unit level. More effective staffing helps hospitals save money and improve morale by reducing dependence on contract nurses and last-minute schedule changes. With excellent forecasts, hospitals are better able to assign bonus dollars to the work shifts that are the hardest to fill, and use shift premiums and overtime more effectively.
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Avantas Uses SAS® Analytics to Revolutionize Its Healthcare Forecasting Saving Organizations Time and Money
© Business Wire 2009
2009-06-16 17:18:13Using predictive analytics from SAS, the leader in business analytics, Avantas helps hospitals accurately forecast staffing needs so that they can spend more time on patients and less time staffing their units.
Avantas provides staffing forecasts to 22 hospitals nationwide as part of its Smart Square ® staffing solution. Its service helps hospitals reduce
dependence on contract nurses and limit last-minute schedule changes. Not only can clients save money and improve morale, they can target bonus dollars to the hardest shifts to fill.
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Building From Scratch
March 1, 2008
Officials at Avantas say that when they agreed to serve as a real-world client for the teams of students in the spring semester Applied Business Simulation class, they were hoping for, at the most, a baseline model they could utilize as they determine the feasibility of taking one of their products to a new city. They got more.
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Avantas Announces Smart Square The Next Generation of Scheduling Software
2008-02-08 12:18:13
Omaha, Neb. – Avantas, a service organization providing best-practices work strategies to health care organizations, recently announced the release of Smart Square – a patentpending suite of automated nurse scheduling software tools invented by a team of health professionals including full-time professional staffers, advanced degree mathematicians, human resource strategists, nursing leaders and some of the best, most experienced software developers in the nation.
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