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How an Overtime Rate Greater than 3% Drains an Organization and Burns Out Employees

06/13/2018admin

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?…

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Linking Staffing to the Quality of Work/Life

10/18/2016admin

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…

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Becker’s Hospital Review: Rethinking Labor Management for Medical Groups

05/14/2015admin

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…

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Avantas to present at Becker’s Hospital Review 6th Annual Meeting

05/01/2015admin

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…

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Avantas to present at 2015 American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing Conference

04/01/2015admin

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…

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Bracing for Revolt and Reaping Buy-in – Group Practice Journal

12/19/2014admin

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,…

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Avantas and Penn State Hershey to attend 2014 ANA Staffing Conference

10/21/2014admin

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…

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Healthcare Informatics: Striking a Balance Between Cost and Quality of Care

10/02/2014admin

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…

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Penn State Hershey Medical Group Realizes More Than $800,000 in Savings Over One Year with Avantas’ Labor Management Solutions

08/12/2014admin

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…

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MGMA: Redesigning labor management for enhanced quality of care

08/06/2014admin

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…

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