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Healthcare Working Smarter Blog

Effective healthcare labor management takes a combination of customized strategies and technologies that work together to increase quality and decrease costs. Of equal importance is culture. Without a culture that embraces continual improvement, seeks new ways of thinking, and values communication and listening, technology and strategy will only take your healthcare organization so far.

This healthcare blog focuses on the three pillars of sustainable, positive outcomes: Strategy, Technology, and Culture as they relate to healthcare enterprise labor management.

Four Tips to Help Healthcare Leaders Guide Change

06/23/2021Jackie Larson

Jackie Larson, President, Avantas Healthcare is one industry that sees a lot of change – changes in laws and regulations, advances in medicine and technology – but living in this cycle of change doesn’t necessarily make it easier to work through. The reality is that change is hard for many of us. We get comfortable…

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Staffing Plan Assessment

Identifying Hospital Labor Cost Opportunities by Conducting a Staffing Plan Assessment

04/14/2021Jackie Larson

Jackie Larson, President, Avantas COVID-19 vaccinations continue to roll out across the U.S. and we are ecstatic to see progress being made at crushing the curve. While we are optimistic about the future, the devastation of the pandemic has affected many lives and organizations that can’t go unnoticed. Partnering with our healthcare organizations over the…

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Centralized Staffing

A Staffing Center Offers a Bird’s Eye View of Healthcare Staffing

03/15/2021Jackie Larson

Jackie Larson, President, Avantas As a company that partners with hospitals and health systems to optimize their workforce, there’s possibly nothing quite as beneficial as having flexible resources. This means having staff that can flex up and down with patient demand, and work within multiple facility locations as needed. Most health facilities would name this…

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Work from Home Staffing Operations

Transitioning to a Remote Staffing Operation: When Home Becomes the Office

02/10/2021Jackie Larson

Jackie Larson, President, Avantas With more than 20 years of experience providing outsourced staffing and scheduling services for healthcare organizations, Avantas knows the importance of a disaster-preparedness plan. When COVID-19 forced Avantas itself to implement an extended, fully remote structure, we knew it was necessary that our internal plan must also ensure that our partners’…

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‘Tailored Solutions’ was the Theme Evident in Virtual Roundtable Sessions

12/29/2020Jackie Larson

Jackie Larson, President, Avantas Like so much else this year, our client roundtable went virtual. One of our favorite events we look forward to every year is our client retreat where we bring together leadership professionals from various health systems to have discussions about workforce management, connect with others, and learn and grow. With COVID-19…

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Labor Management

Continuing to Facilitate Valuable Discussions with Healthcare Leaders via Virtual Roundtables

11/17/2020Jackie Larson

Jackie Larson, President, Avantas As a healthcare workforce management partner, we love nothing more than gathering with our clients to understand their pain points and talk through issues that are top of mind for them. One of our favorite events of the year is our client retreat, where leaders from hospitals and health systems across…

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Caregiver burnout

Easing Healthcare Staff Burnout through Staffing and Scheduling Policy

11/03/2020Jackie Larson

Jackie Larson, President, Avantas A health system’s greatest asset is its staff. Many hospitals and health systems across the country have been tested like they’ve never had before over the past several months. Healthcare providers have been forced to adapt to a new routine as the coronavirus continues to strain the industry. The impact on…

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2020 is the Year of the Unexpected. So What Can We Expect This Flu Season?

08/12/2020Jackie Larson

Jackie Larson, President, Avantas At the beginning of the year, I reflected on how looking into our past can leverage our vision on the future. At the time, I had no idea the coronavirus was lurking around the corner ready to disrupt everyone’s plans and cause devastation across the globe. The majority of us have…

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Enterprise Mentality

5 Qualities of Health Systems Who Have an Enterprise Staffing Mentality

07/13/2020Jackie Larson

Jackie Larson, President, Avantas At the core of what we do here at Avantas is focused around HELM – Healthcare Enterprise Labor Management. All of our offerings are just pieces of the puzzle that is workforce management in healthcare. Smart Square, consulting, Workforce Planning Dashboard – all of these tools should be implemented within an…

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Using Big Data to Solve the Nurse Scheduling Problem

Using Big Data to Solve the Nurse Scheduling Problem

06/25/2020Jackie Larson
Jackie Larson, President, Avantas Nurse scheduling may be one of the most challenging staff schedules to complete given the requirements that must be met. The nurse scheduling problem can be a major headache when creating schedules week after week that will likely leave some staff unhappy. This in addition to all the other demands of...
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Past Blogs

  • Four Tips to Help Healthcare Leaders Guide Change
  • Identifying Hospital Labor Cost Opportunities by Conducting a Staffing Plan Assessment
  • A Staffing Center Offers a Bird’s Eye View of Healthcare Staffing
  • Transitioning to a Remote Staffing Operation: When Home Becomes the Office
  • ‘Tailored Solutions’ was the Theme Evident in Virtual Roundtable Sessions
  • Continuing to Facilitate Valuable Discussions with Healthcare Leaders via Virtual Roundtables
  • Easing Healthcare Staff Burnout through Staffing and Scheduling Policy
  • 2020 is the Year of the Unexpected. So What Can We Expect This Flu Season?
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