A four-day workweek. A retrospective evaluation.
Respiratory therapy managers are expected to provide quality patient care while keeping operational expenses at a minimum. One method that has been proposed for achieving this objective is a four-day workweek. Such a system was tried at Samaritan Hospital, Troy, NY, with disappointing results.
D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009518:New York; D010559:Personnel Management / Q000379:methods*; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000379:methods*; D012139:Respiratory Therapy Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*