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Simplifying Tomorrow's Healthcare, Today

Step aboard with Blackbox, where the skies are blue and the future of healthcare is bright.

by
Charley Larsen

Perfection

“We will be perfect in every aspect of the game. You drop a pass, you run a mile. You miss a blocking assignment, you run a mile. You fumble the football, and I will break my foot off in your John Brown hind parts and then you will run a mile. Perfection. Let's go to work.” — Coach Herman Boone, Remember the Titans. What if the public healthcare consumer had the same expectations of us as Coach Herman Boone did of his football players? Would they be wrong?

by
Charley Larsen

Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail

Patient throughput is at the forefront of nearly every significant challenge we’re facing as an industry today. We need efficiencies; we need data; we need improvement; we need a plan.

by
Charley Larsen

Adventures as an Amateur Craftsman

Those in healthcare know that we consistently find exposed leaks and clogs when reviewing throughput, but how do we repair the piping that is patient flow? 

by
Charley Larsen

We Futureproofed Healthcare

We partnered with vendors; we refined processes and operations; we left no stone unturned. While we still had a long way to go, after one year of operations under this new scope and authority, we grew our outreach by 14% and accepted more than 2,500 additional patients through our virtual front door, adding $14,000,000 dollars to the organization’s bottom line.

by
Charley Larsen

This Is Why I Do What I Do

One gas station. One grocery store. One stoplight. After being raised in small-town Kent City, Michigan, our Chief Nursing Officer writes about how growing up in rural America gave him one mission – to simplify healthcare for all.

by
Charley Larsen

COVID’s Impact on the Nursing Shortage Crisis

Have you ever wondered what it was really like to be a nurse during COVID-19? Partnering with LinkLive, our Chief Nursing Officer answers this question and also explains what led to many nurses joining the Great Resignation, along with what it will take to get them back.

by
Charley Larsen

Yes...but not yet

There is no better time in healthcare than now. It wasn't that long ago that I stood at the ICU bedside, exclaiming to my colleagues that "This is a hospital, not a hotel..." (insert cringe) as we complained about needy patients or needy family members. Boy was I wrong! Little did we know that when we selected healthcare as a college major, that we were in fact selecting hospitality. With that, we must think and act like we're in the service industry. We would never imagine a concept of "yes, but not yet" in a service industry such as auto sales, so why do we accept it in healthcare?

by
Charley Larsen

Looking Back: How Today's Nursing Shortage Came to Be

How did we get to the nursing shortage we are at today? Surprisingly, it wasn’t due to COVID-19, but the pandemic certainly didn’t help.

by
Charley Larsen

The Impact of the Nursing Shortage in Hospitals Today

Increased nursing ratios. Decreased patient satisfaction. 40-hour wait times. But what can be done to help fix these issues?

by
Charley Larsen

I’m Sticking to This Hope

Meet Jack, an alcoholic living in Klamath Falls, Oregon who is trying to begin his journey to recovery, but in turn helps us better understand how broken the behavioral health system is.

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HELP WANTED: Rural Healthcare Champions

Overwhelmed by a lack of resources and over-complicated processes, rural health practitioners are all too often finding themselves unable to provide the level of care required of their patients who are entering the hospitals sicker than ever. This is my healthcare journey and how I've uncovered my relentless commitment to improve equity of access to care for all patients.

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My New Lunchbox

In my new job, I get to see what healthcare heroes are doing at the frontline. I get to see the staffing challenges that nurses are enduring- what used to be the unthinkable is now the norm. The administrators get it, they aren’t disconnected, and they’re desperately trying to help. Nurses today are taking care of twice the number of patients they had previously cared for, and they’re literally doing it in a heroic fashion.

by
Charley Larsen

The Data Puzzle

Let me warn you - healthcare data puzzles rarely play fair. They are notorious for arriving at the party without all their pieces, some forget their boxes, and a very small percentage brings a clear picture of what you’re trying to solve. If you’re like me, those challenges only make data puzzles more enticing. How many pieces are in your puzzle, begging to be put together to show a clear picture of patient throughput?

by
Erin Tams
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