Improving Labor Resource Management
Many healthcare organizations are examining their use of labor resources in an effort to decrease expenses and improve their operating margins. A number of signs may suggest that your organization may not be optimizing its labor resources, including
- Excessive labor utilization in relation to industry benchmarks
- Lack of agreement among managers to departmental staffing targets
- Inadequate manager training in flexible staffing methods
- Limited deployment of labor management tools and resources
- Reliance on non-flex budgets to control labor costs
- Low employee morale and staff resistance to flexing practices
Targetting, Training & Infrastructure Development
- Organizational roll-out of LRM initiative
- Leader training
- Development of productivity improvement plans
- Staff mix
- Staff flexing
- Culture change
- Plans for performance reporting
- Design management standards
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The Healthcare Services Team of RSM McGladrey assists healthcare organizations across the country to resolve these and related issues. Through our Labor Resource Management services, we can help these organizations to leverage their most valuable asset – their human resources – and reduce their labor costs.
Organize and Assess
- Data collection
- Assessment of
- Labor productivity
- Culture
- Management practices
- Core processes
- Benchmarking
- Identification of improvement opportunities
- Initial target setting
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Our Approach
We offer an integrated, customizable approach to labor resource management that is based on a broad range of industry “best practices,” incorporates the critical elements for successful labor resource management and positions the organization for sustainable, improved performance. We provide
- Assistance in establishing credible, benchmark-driven productivity targets;
- A tool kit designed to aid managers in developing progressive staffing models;
- A clearly defined model for managerial competence;
- Assistance with cross-functional improvements and process redesign;
- Change-enablement processes to support the implementation of new standards;
- Assistance in creating a management plan to ensure sustained achievement of the labor productivity targets.
Using this approach, we can help organizations increase labor efficiency, improve morale and leader satisfaction, standardize management practices and increase flexibility.
Contact:
James E. Hosking, FAAHC, FHIMSS, FACHE
Managing Director
Tel 312.634.7104
jim.hosking@rsmi.com
