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2009-06-23
By 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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