II. “Skill to Bill” Cost Savers Using Cost Systems – Become a Cost Expert

Chapter Seven: Workflow and Workload Management

Average Annual Savings per 100 Beds:
$250,000 - $300,000
(When combined with Caregiver Software Management Systems)

 Learn:

• how to hold staff accountable to their assigned interventions using documentation tools tied to the care plan.
• how to hold therapy companies accountable for their minutes in relation to the need for their skills based on the assessed needs of the patients.
• how to implement ways to reduce turnover and absenteeism by dispatching work to the staff, based on the care plan interventions and time management concept that does not over or under load the staff…..if they can get their important work done, everything including patient outcomes get 100% better.
• how to effectively reduce complaints and survey deficiencies by assigning the “F-tags” to specific staff positions.
• how to replace the Departmental organization with a Team organization and eliminate $100,000.00 in wasted middle management costs, while improving staff morale and quality of life for the patients.
• how to Align the work with the staff person’s skills…..i.e., shift high cost work to high skilled people and shift low cost work to the low skilled staff…..nurses need to be doing nurse work, aides, aide work and support personnel who are pursing a clinical career path the lower skilled jobs (studies show that 50% to 60% of what the nurse is doing should be done by CNA’s, and 50% of what an aide does can be done by a non certified staff person aspiring to be an aide).
• how to Assign the work to the team based on the care plan, not cheat sheets or flow sheets.