October 3, 2016 – Filling open shifts can be a hectic, emotional, and financially challenging process for provider organizations. The practice of doing so can vary by department, as can the incentives offered for picking up open shifts. The result can be a chaotic, inefficient, and last-minute process that pits units against one another to compete for…
August 17, 2016 – Jackie Larson discusses the surprising root cause of staffing issues during flu season, offering the unique perspective that the source of the problem is that organizations are attempting to solve the wrong side of the supply and demand equation. Click here to read the article in Becker’s Hospital Review.
November 18, 2015 – Avantas’ SVP, Jackie Larson, discusses an all-too-common staffing scenario and provides insight on two strategies that can help relieve this and similarly challenging staffing situations. Click here to read the article in ADVANCE for Nurses.
August 18, 2015 – Avantas’ President, Chris Fox, discusses how predictive analytics, workforce analytics, and best-practice strategies can converge into the making of a continuum of care that is stable, sustainable, and of the highest quality. Click here to read the article in Becker’s Hospital Review.
June 29, 2015 – Avantas’ Jenny Korth, FACMPE, offers three commonsense strategies that can have a big impact on staffing challenges in this latest article from <em>Executive Insight</em>. In the article, Jenny points out that in some cases, these strategies can be implemented, at least to a certain extent, without any investment in consulting engagements…
May 12, 2015 – Avantas’ Director of Project Management & Support, Jenny Korth, CMPE, shares best practices for small to medium sized medical groups to ensure efficient workforce management. In this article Jenny discusses the importance of utilizing data to drive core and contingency staffing strategies as well the role agency staff can play in…
April 7, 2015 – In this article from the HFMA blog, Jackie Larson, Avantas’ Senior Vice President, talks about the growing breadth of services many health providers are offering outside their traditional scope and locations and the corresponding need to increase the sophistication of their workforce management strategies as a result. This article discusses approaches…
February 25, 2015 – In this article from Talent Culture, Jackie Larson, Avantas’ Senior Vice President, tackles a number of topics, including issues associated with the talent shortage, forecasting patient volumes with predictive modeling, right sizing core and contingency/flexible staffing as well as demographic mix to increase efficiency and predictability, as well as the shifting…
June 18, 2013 – Jackie Larson and Debbie Walkenhorst from SSM Health Care – St. Louis contributed the cover story to HFMA’s June 2013 Healthcare Cost Containment newsletter. The article describes how adopting an enterprise approach to workforce management enabled SSM to reduce contingency staffing costs by more than $23 million over five years and…
June 6, 2013 – Chris Fox was asked by Becker’s Hospital Review to comment on the state of consolidation in healthcare and provide insights on strategies to optimize labor to achieve the benefits of the trend. Click here to read the article