Collette Health to Attend AONL 2026: A Full Virtual Care Ecosystem Built for How Hospitals Actually Work
HealthTech / Clinical Intelligence | 4 min read
Collette Health, ranked #1 in the Best in KLAS Virtual Sitting & Nursing category in both 2025 and 2026, will attend the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) Annual Conference, taking place 29 March – 1 April 2026 in Chicago. Conference attendees can visit the company at Booth #545, where Collette Health will showcase the breadth of its integrated virtual care platform and celebrate two significant milestones for +Staff, its workforce augmentation offering.
+Staff Hits 1 Million Observation Hours
AONL 2026 marks a meaningful milestone for +Staff: the programme has now surpassed 1 million observation hours delivered on platform, and grown to more than 100 expert virtual observers — each trained through the same structured education programme that earned Collette Health back-to-back Best in KLAS recognition. Unlike traditional staffing channels, +Staff observers are embedded within the Collette Health ecosystem, arriving platform-ready, held to consistent QA standards, and able to function as an extension of an existing observation team, a complete managed workforce, or a bridge during staffing transitions. With more than 1,000 individual platform hours per observer, they also contribute directly to product improvements as the platform evolves.
"Reaching 1 million observation hours through +Staff reflects both the scale of demand for flexible virtual staffing and the consistency our team has maintained at that scale. What we're bringing to AONL is a closed-loop virtual care solution built to meet nursing leaders where they are, whether that's a workforce gap today, a virtual nursing programme they're trying to scale, or a partner in redesigning how care is delivered."
— Holly Miller, CEO, Collette Health
Why Virtual Care Programmes Fail — and How Collette Health Addresses It
The conversation at AONL and across the industry keeps returning to a consistent theme: implementation fails when hospitals are handed a platform and left to figure out the rest. Change management, clinical buy-in, workflow integration, and ongoing education are the variables that determine whether a virtual care investment delivers measurable outcomes — or collects dust.
Collette Health's acquisition of the Virtual Nursing Academy™ (VNA) was a direct response to that reality. By combining its proven platform with the VNA's expert-led curriculum, Collette Health became the only virtual care provider to offer both technology and the clinical expertise to implement it successfully — fully integrated under one platform. The VNA's on-demand programme guides nursing leaders through every stage, from strategic planning and pilot development to enterprise-wide scaling and governance. Rather than simply going live and hoping for the best, clinical teams receive the confidence and clarity to move forward with purpose.
This philosophy shapes how Collette Health engages with its hospital partners: not as a vendor managing a deployment, but as a co-designer of the care model. Clinical teams are involved in shaping how workflows are built, how the platform evolves, and how outcomes are measured — an approach that is reflected in both the company's KLAS scores and its long-term client relationships.
Two-Time Best in KLAS: What the Recognition Reflects
Collette Health's second consecutive #1 ranking in the Best in KLAS Virtual Sitting & Nursing category is based on extensive independent interviews with customers — recognising not just the platform, but the training, change management, and ongoing clinical support that determine whether virtual care programmes succeed long-term. The recognition reflects a commitment to outcomes that extend well beyond technology deployment.
Key Takeaways
- • Collette Health will attend AONL 2026 in Chicago (29 March – 1 April) at Booth #545, showcasing its integrated virtual care platform and celebrating two major +Staff milestones.
- • +Staff has surpassed 1 million observation hours on platform and grown to 100+ expert virtual observers — each embedded in the Collette Health ecosystem, platform-ready with 1,000+ hours each.
- • The acquisition of the Virtual Nursing Academy™ made Collette Health the only virtual care provider to offer both technology and fully integrated clinical implementation expertise — guiding hospitals from planning through enterprise-wide governance.
- • Collette Health ranked #1 in Best in KLAS Virtual Sitting & Nursing for both 2025 and 2026 — recognition based on independent customer interviews covering platform, training, change management, and ongoing clinical support.
- • The company positions itself not as a vendor but as a co-designer of care models — involving clinical teams in workflow design, platform evolution, and outcomes measurement from day one.