Labor Management Program Assessment – We can evaluate your labor management program and provide recommendations to improve manager’s commitment and results. Sample of components reviewed include: organization infrastructure, metrics, reporting, education, and program management.
Labor Variance Improvement – We assist hospital departments analyze their labor variances and develop actions plans and options resolve budget variances in the near term.
Target Assessments – We identify labor requirements for hospital departments based on facility goals, organization size and complexity and best demonstrated performance. Our approach leads to higher acceptance than benchmarking.
Labor Management Education – We can provide a coordinated management development education series for Senior Leaders and Department Management on how to manage labor costs, develop accountability programs and optimize hospital productivity. Key topics include managing supplemental labor, managing core staff, how to manage in non revenue (support) departments, how to understand productivity and how to correct labor variances.
Operational Assessments – We can perform a scientific review of key operational components to uncover labor cost reduction opportunities in departments or across processes. This collaborative approach leads to options for leaders to consider in providing cost-effective quality services.
Position Review Design – We evaluate your existing position review process and suggest changes to allow for optimal regular (FT/PT) and Supplemental labor (Float, XPT, Pool, OT, etc) mix that optimizes an organization’s ability to flex staffing.
Contract Evaluations – We can use our experience working for health information system vendors to improve the implementation of workforce management solutions. This includes development and evaluation of RFPs, evaluation of vendors and contract negotiations.
Employee Involvement programs (Employee Idea Mgmt) – We can foster improved employee involvement in providing ideas to improve your business processes. We provide an automated program to solicit and evaluate employee ideas that will generate savings and quality improvement.
