staff-to-acuity-ppd

name: staff-to-acuity-ppd description: "Build a staffing model on acuity-weighted hours-per-resident-day, not a fixed ratio, so labor matches need. Reach for this on a labor question."

Skill: Staff to acuity-based PPD

A fixed ratio over- or under-staffs against real need.

Step 1 — Weight the census by acuity

Acuity-weighted resident days (§3 #3).

Step 2 — Set care hours per resident day

Target PPD by acuity and shift.

Step 3 — Schedule to the model

Build the schedule to the acuity-based hours.

Step 4 — Cut agency reliance

Reduce premium agency labor against the model (§3 #6).

Output

An acuity-weighted PPD staffing model, a schedule, and an agency-reliance reduction.