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In Reply To: FTE's per number of consults
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Post Re:FTE's per number of consults
Author: rmaunder
Date: Oct 26, 2007 6:38 pm
Cynthia: We have been going since March with our inpatient consult service and are averaging about 60 referrals per month at a 350-bed hospital, with full consults happening in about 2/3 of those (that's right in Lynne's ballpark of between 1 and 2 consults per bed per year). We have 1.6 RN's, 1 SW, and 0.6 physicians dedicated to the service, although the the RN's and SW devote about 5-10% of their time to outpatient follow-up calls and visits. The docs doing this are in fact devoting closer to 100% time during their weeks on service, and we are staffing up to that level in 2008. We are structured administratively and budgetarily through the hospice, not the hospital. -- Dick Maunder (Providence Health & Services, Portland, OR).
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