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Dr. Katz explains H+H's approach to staffing and census management
1:04:39
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Dr. Mitchell Katz elaborates on Health + Hospitals' current approach to staffing and census management. Key points include:
- H+H now staffs according to patient census, a change from practices 7.5 years ago
- Staffing follows state-mandated ratios
- Occasional staffing challenges occur due to unexpected sick leaves
- This approach allows for better patient care and resource allocation
- Dr. Katz contrasts the current approach with previous practices where staffing didn't always match patient numbers
- He acknowledges that unexpected absences can still pose challenges to maintaining ideal staffing levels
Mitchell Katz
1:04:39
Very good, well thank you for your questions and for your support.
1:04:43
So right now, and you know this is a change in health and hospitals from seven and a half years ago, We staff for our census.
1:04:53
That didn't used to be the case.
1:04:54
Right.
1:04:55
Used to be, you know, there might be, and again our chair can talk about this, there might have been two nurses and 10 patients, two nurses and 12 patients, two nurses and 15 patients.
1:05:06
We staff for our census now and we staff according to the state ratios.
1:05:11
Occasionally we do, you know in honesty, miss it if we have a lot of sick outs.
1:05:16
Sick outs are hard to prepare for because the schedule says you have four nurses.
1:05:22
But what happens if you only have two nurses because two are unexpectedly out sick?
1:05:28
King's has already absorbed some of what used to be at University Hospital because they've closed several of their lines of service.