Staffing strategies help ED save more than $1 million a year.
You don't have to cut staff to save money, as the ED at Catawba Valley Medical Center has demonstrated. It is saving more than $1 million a year without reducing the number of full-time staff. Here's how you can do the same thing: If you are currently using contrast nurses, gradually replace them with PRNs. Eliminate overtime for your nurses. It's better than having to lay some of them off. Cross-train nursing assistants so they can fill in for other employees, such as secretaries or phlebotomists.
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