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Author: GlennGolaszewskiMD
Date: Jun 9, 2009 5:02 pm
We have a Hospice ADC of 190-210 home pts and just opened an inpatient Hospice facility with 13 GIP and 7 Residential beds. We have one FT Medical Director who is currently seeing all the inpatients, taking call every weeknight and 2-3 weekends/ month and all holidays. Getting to be too much, esp the call. Looking for some experience/ benchmarks on how many FTEs for docs/NPs my colleagues would expect with this caseload.
Appreciate any input or experience, even if your situation does not match ours.
Thanks in advance everyone.
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Re:Physician Staffing (by SharolHerr on 06/10/2009)
WOW! That is an incredible load you are carrying. The best resource for you to find hospice industry staffing standards is the NHPCO Website. On their website they have a section entitled "Hospice Statistics and Research." In that section there is a national data set that is a compilation of approximately 800 hospice programs. Staffing ratios are included in the data set. In our community we have a hospice program with a similar ADC and a 9 bed hospice facility and they are staffed by 3 FT and some part-time physicians to cover the scope of their services including consults, home and nursing home visits and the inpatient hospice facility. Sounds like some negotiation is in order. Hope the "Data Set" is helpful. Sharol Herr, RN, BSN, MSEd, CHPN; Nurse Clinician and Education Coordinator; Mount Carmel Health Palliative Care Leadership Center; Columbus, Ohio.

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