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What is the recommended approach for adjusting drivers to flex volume, workload, revenue, and departmental plans in healthcare planning?
What is the recommended approach for adjusting drivers to flex volume, workload, revenue, and departmental plans in healthcare planning?
- Using stand-alone spreadsheet models
- Using intuitive calculation methods
- Establishing proper statistical relationships (correct)
- Ignoring departmental workload statistics
What type of models are more efficient for healthcare planning?
What type of models are more efficient for healthcare planning?
- Stand-alone spreadsheet models
- Driver-based models (correct)
- Intuitive calculation models
- None of the above
What should be identified for each department in order to establish workload intensity statistics?
What should be identified for each department in order to establish workload intensity statistics?
- Staffing differences
- Global drivers
- Departmental plans
- Department workload stats (correct)
What should be taken into account when designing a healthcare planning model?
What should be taken into account when designing a healthcare planning model?
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How should staffing differences on nursing floors be accommodated in healthcare planning?
How should staffing differences on nursing floors be accommodated in healthcare planning?
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- Stand-alone spreadsheet models are not easily adjusted for varying volume and rate assumptions.
- Proper statistical relationships are necessary to adjust drivers to flex volume, workload, revenue, and departmental plans.
- Driver-based models are more efficient for healthcare planning.
- Workload intensity statistics should be identified for each department.
- The relationship between department workload stats and global drivers should be established.
- Intuitive calculation methods should be used to show the impact of volume and rate changes on variable dollars/hours.
- Staffing differences on nursing floors should be accommodated to adjust daily census and flex hours using existing staffing ratios.
- Assumptions related to global volumes, reimbursement rates, inflation factors, labor rates, and efficiency targets should cascade down to flex revenue and expense plans.
- Key design considerations related to data flow and points of control in the model should be taken into account.
- Efficient planning in healthcare requires establishing proper statistical relationships to adjust drivers to flex volume, workload, revenue, and departmental plans.
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