[Histonet] Productivity

[CHRISTIE GOWAN]

Hi Karen,
The best way to communicate with management is through data. If you have access to say the last 3 years of blocks and or slides cut and you compare it to accessions or cpt codes then you have a roadmap of where you have been in the past and where you are now. Do you have more or less employees and is this a temporary lull in numbers or has this dip occurred before. At least you will be able to formulate a more informed response to their request for cutting back hours. This is always a complicated issue and we have seen an increase in case complexity as well in our institution so our numbers of blocks vs. specimen count is skewed as well. Tell them you will cut hours but you will need all new equipment to continue to meet your deadlines! Ha!. Let us know how it turns out and good luck!
 
Christie Gowan, HT (ASCP)
UAB Hospital
Histology Supervisor
Surgical Pathology
205 934 4991
cgowan <@t> uabmc.edu
 

> From: Karen.Heckford <@t> DignityHealth.org
> To: histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:42:39 -0700
> Subject: [Histonet] Productivity
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> Good Morning,
> I know we have been over this before, how does your lab measure productivity? Are you going by block and slide or by CPT code? I have been told by the "Suits" that we can only measure productivity by per specimen or CPT code with no weight and value. As you know when you get a big case you can have a bunch of blocks on it therefore a bunch of slides. I do everything from GI specimens to big breast cases. They will tell me that our productivity is down and we need to cut hours. I just do not know exactly how to drill it in to them that things are not always as they appear on paper. I am talking in circles until I am blue in the face...AUGH!!!!!!
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> Karen Heckford HT ASCP CE
> Lead Histology Technician
> St. Mary's Medical Center
> 450 Stanyan St.
> San Francisco, Ca. 94117
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