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Patient Acuity System Observations from Healthworcs

Acuity systems save a lot of money over traditional staffing by patient counts. Acuity systems determine the right amount of staff according to weighted patient workload. When used each shift, the savings can be well over $150,000 per year for each patient care unit.
Caregivers typically spend less than 50% on direct care. Larger indirect time elements include: documentation, computer related activities, and communications.
Every additional staff hour per patient day for 10 patients is over $110,000 per year.
Contact Peter Fauerbach at Healthworcs 1-608-233-1793.

Unitworcs - database version

A patient acuity and staffing solution in database format with extensive reporting. Perfect for a community hospital with several units. Use it on a shift basis, match staffing to workload, match to budgeted productivity, justify your intuition, and engineered for reliability and validity. Capture event related workload for admission, discharge and transfers that often don't get counted.

Tied to your budget target.
Use it every shift or more than once per shift
Hit those productivity targets.
Customized for you using a variety of class ratios from simple to more complex.

Let's you know when data was last entered

Contact Peter Fauerbach at Healthworcs 1-608-233-1793.

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Are you Critical Access? Do you staff multiple care areas from one cost center?

Combined Unit Staffing Tool shown below - An acuity and staffing tool for smaller sites. Healthworcs has a combined unit patient acuity and staffing tool. Typical smaller sites have one nursing station to cover OB, ED, Swing Bed, Med/Surg, ICU, and hourly or outpatient services. Are you a critical access hospital? Consider the Combined Unit Staffing and Acuity Tool. Affordable Prices.

Healthworcs Combined Unit Staffing Tool

Combine our UnitWorcs patient acuity services with the Worcsampling service and quantify how your care staff spend their time as a baseline to your project. This combination of services provides educational value to staff, and includes them in process improvement activities in your area.

Healthworcs has studied work activities using work sampling on over 25 inpatient units. Patient acuity systems have been developed using from 12-36 indicators of patient acuity. Our systems meet Title 22 Requirement in the State of California. Call Healthworcs today to discuss your needs.

New Software and Solutions Available to Patient Care Managers

1. Unit budgeting tool for managers and directors - Create scenarios and see the resulting annual budget needs. Change, patient mix, skill mix, salaries, HPPD, census. Easy to use. Price call.

2. Determine your roster make-up. Determine mix of part-time and full time staff for 8 or 12 hours scenarios. Price call.

3. Both Management Tools - 10 % discount.. Price call.

4. Analyze census and staffing records to determine the best full-part time mix. Price/unit call.

5. Are low census shifts making it impossible to attain budgeted HPPD? Price/unit call.

CNOs and V-Ps of Patient Care. Healthworcs has a staffing solution for you.

Do you need a way to bridge the gap between your inpatient acuity system outputs and your monthly or bi-weekly budget report? We have it for you! Ask for our Budget Tool for Nursing Managers.

Contact Peter Fauerbach at Healthworcs 1-608-233-1793.

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