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Healthcare Workforce Management White Papers

Avantas has been a leading provider of healthcare workforce management solutions for two decade. The following healthcare workforce management white papers represent a fraction of the research Avantas has conducted into the science of workforce planning, staffing and scheduling, and operational best practices.

At Avantas, our single focus helping healthcare organizations improve their workforce management. We do this through the implementation of advanced healthcare scheduling and productivity solutions and customized healthcare consulting strategies to ensure predictable and sustainable results.

Avantas Covid-19 Recovery White Paper

Coming Back from Covid-19
A path to Recovering Revenue, Decreasing Costs, and Acquiring Talent

Emphasis on Growth, Increasing Importance of Culture, Need to Focus on Workforce Retention Headline Findings

The coronavirus pandemic of 2020 threw a punch at the economy, and at healthcare in particular, from which it will be challenging to recover.

10 Healthcare Trends in 2020

Emphasis on Growth, Increasing Importance of Culture, Need to Focus on Workforce Retention Headline Findings
AMN Leadership Solutions, which combines the resources of AMN Healthcare, B.E. Smith, and Merritt Hawkins, surveys leaders annually as part of its ongoing monitoring of industry issues and trends.

Beyond the Float Pool

Sophisticated Strategies for a Complex Reality
To cost effectively meet patient demand with today's diversified and complex delivery networks, healthcare providers must have contingency staff strategies that go well beyond the idea of having a 'float pool.' This white paper explores emerging best-practice contingency staff layering as well as the right-sizing of core staff sources.

The Resource Management Center

Insights and Strategies for Centralized Staffing
Many healthcare organizations are adopting centralized approaches to managing labor to increase efficiencies. While this strategy has tremendous potential, many providers find themselves struggling to make it work. This white paper provides insight into the strategy and discusses six solutions to the most common pain points healthcare organizations encounter with this approach.

Understanding Turnover

A Study of Staffing and the Correlation to Turnover
Most organizations make decisions about nurse turnover and retention without a complete understanding of the causes. Avantas analyzed a number of staffing metrics from 38 hospitals across six health systems. For each metric we determined the average percentage of total hours per RN and identified at what point the metric played a factor in turnover.

Open Shift Management

Understanding Motivation is Key to Filling Open Shifts
This white paper presents the results of a study examining staff motivations in filling high-need nursing shifts and how a scheduling module of decreasing financial incentives as shift dates approach supports nurses' decisions.

Scheduling for Maximum Efficiency

A Comparison of 4, 6, & 8 Week Schedule Periods
Avantas conducted research of inpatient nursing units at more than 75 hospitals and tracked how various scheduling frequencies impacted two important financial factors: FTE leakage and incidental worked time. The white paper also looks at how the different schedule periods correlate to the frequency of core staff floating and schedule changes.

Managing Incidental Worked Time

Examining Causes and Exploring Solutions
Incidental worked time (IWT) refers to time a staff member is on the clock before or after a shift or during a scheduled meal break. While individual instances of IWT can seem innocuous, when rolled up to the hospital level, the expense can amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. This white paper walks through the various causes of IWT and provides solutions to reduce it.

Scheduling Resiliency

Outcomes of Submitting Balanced Nurse Schedules
This white paper looks at three provider organizations, examining the difference between the fill rate at the time of schedule submission versus the actual fill rates the day of the shift. It examines the strategies and tactics each organization leveraged, including use of overtime, agency, float pools, and other strategies.

Read the latest from our Healthcare Working Smarter blog.

Using Big Data to Solve the Nurse Scheduling Problem

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...

Accelerated Nurse Staffing Solutions for Healthcare Organizations

Jackie Larson, President, Avantas The inception of COVID-19 has highlighted and introduced a new set of challenges to healthcare organizations. Emergence from this situation in the strongest position possible and returning to more normalized operations quickly require a deliberate recovery strategy. While each strategy must be tailored to each specific healthcare organization and location, there...

Four Ways to Help Healthcare Managers Lead Through a Pandemic

Jackie Larson, President, Avantas Several months into the novel coronavirus, there are still many unknowns about COVID-19 and its impact on the human population. Doctors and researchers are learning more about it every day, and our society looks forward to a hopeful future. But, it is human nature to fear the unknown. Feeling anxious is...

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