The Compass Clinical Consulting Approach to Labor Productivity
Our non-disruptive hospital labor productivity approach to healthcare cost management works at any hospital.
- R4 – Right Person, Right Role, Right Time, Right Place
- Appropriate staff levels for average patient volume
- Flex staffing to handle patient capacity fluctuations
- Commitment behind policies and procedures
- Intra-departmental throughput
- Inter-departmental cooperation
- Utilization of lean actions
Labor Cost Productivity Initiatives
- Use hospital departmental workload units that allow valid comparison to national benchmarks
- Adopt reasonable productivity targets that department managers embrace because they participate in the process
- Educate hospital managers on the use of tools and other identified areas of opportunity so they can meet their targets themselves
- Change inefficient processes (department and systemic) that have a negative impact on hospital productivity
- Assure adherence to established policies and procedures that affect hospital labor cost and hospital staff productivity
Consider Variables Unique to Your Organization
- Case mix of patients
- Degree of complexity of care required by patients
- Cross-training, job function and duties
- Types of treatments
- Technology used for patient care
- Expectations of other hospital departments, physicians and patients
- Departmental configuration
- Patient safety
Call Shawna O’Neill or Eric Dam about Hospital Labor Cost Productivity at (513) 241.0142.
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