AtStaff announces today that two prestigious academic medical centers — The Ohio State University Medical Center and Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center — have selected AtStaff’s ClairVia® staff and demand management software systems.
“We are immensely proud that these two highly distinguished academic medical centers, with established reputations for improving people’s lives through innovation in research, education and patient care, have selected our ClairVia systems,” says Beth Pickard, President and Chief Executive Officer at AtStaff. “Our products support the mission of today’s leading healthcare organizations because they help caregivers improve each patient’s health and achieve positive patient outcomes.”
The Ohio State University Medical Center has selected to install ClairVia Demand Manager, ClairVia Outcomes-Driven Patient Acuity and ClairVia Staff Manager. Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center has selected to install ClairVia Staff Manager.
“We are in the early stages of implementing these ClairVia solutions to support our objectives in delivering the highest quality, safe patient care,” says Mary G. Nash, Ph.D., FAAN, FACHE, Chief Nurse Executive and Associate Vice President for Health Sciences at The Ohio State University Medical Center. “As we sought evidence-based solutions designed to improve positive patient outcomes, ClairVia products offer the potential for helping us further our mission in improving people’s lives through personalized patient care.”
ClairVia Demand Manager allows staffing managers to measure and predict each patient’s need for staffing care — on a patient-by-patient basis. The software continuously tracks each patient’s real-time status against an outcomes-based target, continually guiding the patient to the best clinical outcome.
ClairVia Outcomes-Driven Patient Acuity integrates with ClairVia Demand Manager to calculate workload for staffing levels and skill mix based on patient-specific outcomes, supporting established standards of evidence-based nursing care and professional practice.
ClairVia Staff Manager is a comprehensive staff management solution, including enterprise scheduling and staffing, real-time decision support, personalized Web-based dashboards for all stakeholders, and advanced productivity measurement and reporting.
After an intensive market analysis and internal review process, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (WFUBMC) selected ClairVia Staff Manager as its software solution to improve efficiency and resource utilization involved with nursing scheduling, staffing and productivity management.
“The current nursing shortage and the time-consuming processes involved with manual scheduling and staffing were among the key drivers in our need for an electronic staff scheduling and staffing system,” says Robin Hack, Director of Nursing Clinical Systems at WFUBMC.
Hack says ClairVia’s personalized dashboards, which provide real-time staffing and scheduling data and alerts for both managers and employees, “will ensure that the right information is always accessible for informed, point-of-need decision-making.”
Because employee schedules, schedule changes and staffing views are updated in real time, ClairVia Staff Manager makes it quick and easy to pinpoint instances of over-staffing and under-staffing. The software’s decision-support tools help staffing managers locate and assign available employees at the lowest cost and highest quality.
“The ability to see, at a glance, the staff that are working and where, and which staff will or will not incur overtime if allowed to fill a staffing gap will help control labor costs,” says Jerry Smith, Director of Finance for Nursing at WFUBMC.
Johnny Veal, the system’s Senior Nursing Operations Director, reports that nurses at WFUBMC have been actively seeking an automated tool to “improve scheduling and staffing and ClairVia is the preferred tool.”
“Our nurses are eagerly anticipating project implementation, and our nurse managers will benefit from the numerous reports they’ll gain regarding staffing and productivity management.”
Hack adds that in addition to providing advanced software technology, AtStaff delivers strong capabilities in customer service.
“The AtStaff team was extremely responsive during our decision-making process. They provided numerous demonstrations, client references, and conference calls, delivering absolutely great customer service.”
About The Ohio State University Medical Center
Located in Columbus, Ohio, The Ohio State University Medical Center is one of the largest and most diverse academic medical centers in the country and the only academic medical center in central Ohio.
Driven by a mission to improve people’s lives through innovation in research, The Ohio State University Medical Center saves lives and improves the quality of life by rapidly translating the latest discoveries from the research lab to the bedside. It educates a large percentage of the region’s physicians and provides advanced training and continuing education for clinicians.
The Ohio State University Medical Center is ranked as one of the top 5 academic medical centers in the U.S. by the University Health System Consortium for delivering high-quality, safe, effective care.
In addition to other distinguished achievements, the medical center:
Is one of 50 hospitals in the country named to the Leapfrog Group’s list of “Top Hospitals” for quality and safety.
Was named for the 15th consecutive year as one of “America’s Best Hospitals” by U.S. News & World Report.
Was the first hospital in central Ohio to achieve Magnet status for nursing excellence.
Is virtually self-sustaining financially with estimated fiscal year 2007 operating revenue of $1.84 billion, representing 51.3 percent of university revenue.
More information on The Ohio State University Medical Center can be obtained at http://medicalcenter.osu.edu/.
About Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (WFUBMC) is an academic health system comprised of North Carolina Baptist Hospital and Wake Forest University Health Sciences, which operates the university’s School of Medicine. WFUBMC operates 1,154 acute care, psychiatric, rehabilitation and long-term care beds, outpatient services, and community health and information centers.
The system, which consistently ranks as one of “America’s Best Hospitals” by U.S. News & World Report, provides a continuum of care that includes primary care centers, outpatient rehabilitation, dialysis centers, home health care and long-term nursing centers, and 20 subsidiary or affiliate hospitals.
WFUBMC was among the first 14 hospitals in the nation to receive Magnet Recognition for Excellence in Nursing Service, and the first hospital system in North Carolina to earn Magnet designation and re-designation.
More information about Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center can be obtained at http://www1.wfubmc.edu/.
About AtStaff and ClairVia® *
Healthcare management software systems from AtStaff serve more than 1,200 healthcare organizations, medical facilities, nursing departments and group practices.
The company’s set of ClairVia® demand management solutions for the hospital enterprise marketplace improves quality of care, patient safety and patient throughput by ensuring that patients receive the exact, clinically appropriate level and amount of staffing care from admission to discharge.
AtStaff markets four ClairVia solutions:
ClairVia Demand Manager
ClairVia Outcomes-Driven Patient Acuity
ClairVia Caregiver Assignment
ClairVia Staff Manager
More information on AtStaff and its ClairVia solutions is available at www.atstaff.com
* Patent Pending
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