Hospital Financial Health Increasing Staff Productivity
While hospitals across the nation explore the strategic challenges related to physician relations, tax-exempt status, and managed care penetration, as reported in the last Hospital Briefs, their financial health is the most critical issue they are facing. One aspect of this issue that is getting attention from hospitals is the need to increase the productivity of currently employed staff. Productivity is receiving increasing attention as staff shortages of nurses and laboratory and radiology technicians continue.
