August 15, 2015 – The latest issue of HFMA’s Healthcare Cost Containment newsletter features a piece from Jenny Korth, FACMPE, on how medical groups can achieve savings and operational improvements by adopting a patient-centric approach to scheduling staff. Click here to read the online version (HFMA membership/subscription required).
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…
October 15, 2014 – Even the most respected providers in the country have room to improve and reduce labor costs — and to do so in a way that actually enhances patient safety and improves the quality of care. In this article, featured in HFMA’s Healthcare Cost Containment Newsletter, Jackie Larson offers solutions to five…
June 11, 2014 – Is one type of nurse staffing schedule — four, six, or eight weeks — better for the bottom line? To find out, Avantas looked at inpatient nursing units at more than 75 hospitals and tracked how the various scheduling frequencies affected two financial factors: FTE leakage and incidental worked time (in…
July 24, 2013 – In this interview from ExecutiveInsight at HFMA’s ANI 2013 in Orlando, Chris Fox shares how the combination of best practices and technology helped one client save $23.2 million in labor costs. He also explains the impact of effective labor management practices on ACOs. Click here to listen to the interview.
July 12, 2013 – The Tennessee Chapter of the Healthcare Finance Management Association (HFMA) held a webinar featuring Chris Fox, CEO of Avantas, and Logan Pigg, Corporate Director of Finance at Mountain States Health Alliance. Moderated by Brad Adams of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, this webinar provides an overview of how strategic labor management and…
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…
April 10, 2013 – In this article from the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), Sherry Kwater, CNO at Penn State Hershey, talks about the decision to partner with Avantas to help analyze scheduling issues and develop solutions. The article provides great insight into what to consider when looking to partner with a third-party provider. Click…