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US 2004/0019504 A1Published application
Multi-tier forecast-based hospital staffing system
OwnerNancy Kay Korom, Christine Gall Fitz-Verploegh +1inventors
InventorsNancy Kay Korom, Christine Gall Fitz-Verploegh, Ramesh Chander Sachdeva
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Abstract
A healthcare staff scheduling technique uses concurrent schedules each based on a different predictive model, where the models varying in term and accuracy. Work under each schedule is independently compensated allowing a multi-tiered approach to unexpectedly high patient census that minimizes disruption and inconvenience to healthcare staff.
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A method of staffing a health care facility comprising the steps of:
- (a) establishing a series of projections of patient census having prediction terms varying between long to short-term;
- (b) establishing a series of concurrent staffing schedules corresponding to the series of projections, the staff schedules defining scheduling of staff for future time periods corresponding in length substantially to the varying prediction term of the associated projections;
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- (c) providing for each different staff schedule a different compensation for work by staff per that schedule;
- whereby staffing of the health care facility is substantially equal to the sum of the staffing defined by each staff schedule.
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A computer program to aid in staffing a health care facility, the program executing on a computer to:
- (i) receive historical census data;
- (ii) apply the census data to a mathematical model to produce a series of projections of patient census having predication terms varying between long to short-term;
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- (iii) generate a series of concurrent staffing schedules corresponding to the series of projections, the time periods of the staff schedules corresponding substantially to the prediction terms of the associated projections, each staff schedule providing different compensation for work by staff;
- whereby staffing of the health care facility is substantially equal to the sum of the staffing defined by each staff schedule.
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