Superior Productivity: How to Get It, How to Keep It

This revised second edition of the popular guide for healthcare administrators offers more tools to invigorate the productivity of their organizations with long-lasting success. Loaded with practical, enduring solutions, this book will help hospital and health system management reclaim lost productivity in a surprisingly short time and at low cost. Based on the author's direct experience with over 50 hospitals, the text takes you step by step through the process from analysis to implementation of productivity standards and beyond. Updated to include the most current financial and workforce trends in healthcare services, this edition introduces new measurement methods for workload measures that accurately reflect both volume and patient or service mix. Hospital administrators, physicians, corporate health system staff, financial executives, or hospital or health plan administrators need this practical and enduring guide in their hands and on their shelves! Written in a supportive, conversational style, author Paul Fogel draws upon his successful experience with more than 70 hospitals to take you step by step through the simple, logical, and powerfully effective approach to increasing staff productivity and also reclaiming lost productivity. With dozens of illustrations, tables, financial models, and case studies, readers can easily grasp the core concepts of measurement, accountability, simplicity, and fairness.