title: The shocking cost of turnover in health care.
abstract: Review of turnover costs at a major medical center helps health care managers gain insights about the magnitude and determinants of this managerial challenge and assess the implications for organizational effectiveness. Here, turnover includes hiring, training, and productivity loss costs. Minimum cost of turnover represented a loss of >5 percent of the total annual operating budget. Editor's Note: This article is being reprinted with permission from Health Care Management Review 29(1), 2-7.
authors.affiliation: Health Sciences Center and Anderson Schools of Management, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA. Dwaldman@salud.unm.edu
authors.forename: J Deane
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Waldman
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kelly
authors.forename: Sanjeev
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Arora
authors.forename: Howard L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Smith