Workforce Productivity
Assign the right clinician with the right education and experience to the task, while optimizing cost
Successfully Size and Configure the Patient Care Workforce
What We Do
Across the nation, hospital margins are under pressure as labor costs continue to grow and patient mix shifts to outpatient settings. Our labor and productivity experts help healthcare organizations deliver high-quality care and excellent outcomes with fewer labor hours and lower total costs.
We uncover all factors contributing to labor costs, including productivity, premium dollars, and nonproductive time. Then, we work with healthcare teams to understand and budget for critical staffing needs—day by day, hour by hour.
How we help hospitals reduce labor costs by 5-8% per year:
Review productivity by department to determine whether staffing matches workload
Analyze premium pay codes to identify revenue leakage or misuse of staffing resources
Look at productive vs. nonproductive time to identify opportunities for improved productivity
Establish targets based on national benchmarks and empower leaders to staff to volume and budgets
How we help
Real-time Solutions for Labor Efficiencies
Our labor and productivity experts identify all factors contributing to labor costs, including productivity, premium dollars, and nonproductive time. Then, we use data to determine the right staffing models, evaluate opportunities to grow services while rightsizing others, set productivity targets by department, and hold leaders accountable for results.
Featured Workforce productivity Insights
Using Science to Improve the Art of Staffing
This paper describes the complexity of the staffing system, and suggests how the infusion of contemporary science with the art of current staffing could significantly improve staff allocation.
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Using Data and Analytics to Improve Clinical Staff Productivity and Flexibility
Watch this webinar to hear how health system leaders can apply advanced statistical modeling and targeted analytics to optimize the clinical workforce.
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A Data-Driven Approach to Improving Clinical Care and Reducing Costs
Start the critical cost-reduction phase and take an in-depth look at clinical care, using data analytics.
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Managing the Cost of Quality
Learn four key steps healthcare leaders can take to successfully integrate quality measures with cost accounting data to improve patient care outcomes and financial performance.
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