Your hospital has built a new freestanding facility that includes a 36-bed medical telemetry care unit. The patients and staff from the existing smaller units will be combine into the new unit. The current budget for each of these units is:  unit a- average daily census 11.9  unit b- average daily census 22.0 unit a- acuity 1.6 unit b- acuity 1.85 unit a- workload 3.8 unit b-workload 3.6 unit a- productivity % 19.0 unit b- productivity % 16.5 the budgets of the two units will be combine with no changes. Calculate the budget for the new unit including the ADC, acuity, workload, hours per patient day (HPPD), shifts/24 hours, productivity factor and variable direct care full time equivalents.

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Your hospital has built a new freestanding facility that includes a 36-bed medical telemetry care unit. The patients and staff from the existing smaller units will be combine into the new unit. The current budget for each of these units is: 

unit a- average daily census 11.9 

unit b- average daily census 22.0

unit a- acuity 1.6

unit b- acuity 1.85

unit a- workload 3.8

unit b-workload 3.6

unit a- productivity % 19.0

unit b- productivity % 16.5

the budgets of the two units will be combine with no changes. Calculate the budget for the new unit including the ADC, acuity, workload, hours per patient day (HPPD), shifts/24 hours, productivity factor and variable direct care full time equivalents. 

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A Small Introduction about Productivity

 

  • Productivity is the proportion between the result of riches and the contribution of assets utilized underway cycles.
  • The assets utilized might be land, building, gear, hardware, materials, work, and so on.
  • Productivity implies a financial proportion of results per unit of info.
  • Productivity is critical to people (laborers and buyers), business pioneers, and investigators (like policymakers and government analysts).
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