June 12, 2018 – What word causes blood pressures to rise and frustrates both staff and employers? Overtime. A workforce struggle that spans the ages, overtime has its time and place in nearly every industry. But excessive overtime is a pain point for many organizations and burns out employees. What constitutes an excessive amount of overtime?…
October 18, 2016 – Rita Barry and Brian Sheinfeld of Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Penn State Health, teamed up with Jackie Larson to write about their initiative to improve the working environment for nurses through the formation of a Quality of Work Life Council. The council looks at a number of issues that affect the well…
May 14, 2015 – At the Becker’s Hospital Review 6th Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 8, Jackie Larson and Sherri Luchs (Penn State Hershey Medical Group), discussed how the transition from a traditional fixed staffing model to a variable staffing model, along with the adoption of technology and operational best practices, can improve quality and…
May 1, 2015 – Avantas announced today that its Senior Vice President, Jackie Larson, and Penn State Hershey’s Sherri Luchs, MHA, BSN, of the Center for Enterprise Innovation, will present “Rethinking Labor Management” at the Becker’s Hospital Review 6th Annual Meeting. During the presentation, Larson and Luchs will discuss key staffing metrics and describe the…
April 1, 2015 – Avantas announced today that its Senior Vice President, Jackie Larson, and Penn State Hershey’s Sherri Luchs, MHA, BSN, of the Center for Enterprise Innovation, will present “Rethinking Labor Management: One Medical Group’s Transformative Journey to Improved Quality and Increased Savings,” at the 2015 American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing (AAACN) Annual…
December 19, 2014 – The American Medical Group Associations’ (AMGA) Group Practice Journal has just published a story on the series of initiatives Penn State Hershey Medical Group undertook with Avantas to more effectively manage the workforce of their network of 50 practice sites. For Penn State Hershey Medical Group this involved, among other strategies,…
Omaha, NE – October 21, 2014 – Avantas today announced that its client, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, was selected to present an overview of its strategic labor plan at the 2014 ANA Staffing Conference (American Nurses Association). Nursing leaders from Penn State Hershey will lead a breakout session detailing how to best use technology…
September 30, 2014 – Healthcare Informatics has just published an interview article featuring Sherri Luchs, chief administrative officer for the Penn State Hershey Medical Group. In the article Sherri explains how visibility into staffing via technology, analytics, predictive modeling, and centralized resource management is helping transform Penn State Hershey’s labor management strategy and has lead…
Omaha, NE – August 12, 2014 – Penn State Hershey Medical Group has saved more than $800,000 in one year since implementing Avantas’ consulting services and healthcare enterprise labor management solutions. In March 2013, Penn State Hershey leveraged Avantas’ HELM® (healthcare enterprise labor management) methodology to increase transparency, visibility and standardization of staffing needs via…
August 6, 2014 – The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) has just published a case study highlighting the process and success of the system-wide labor management redesign initiative underway at Penn State Hershey, with a focus on its more than 50 medical group practice sites. Co-authored by Sherri Luchs, the founding chief administrative officer of…