[Histonet] Productivity

[Rene J Buesa]

Hi Karen:
"Productivity" and its measures depends on who is going to use it.
1- For the pathologists as a whole they are interested in CASES they receive and sign either on a daily or monthly basis;
2- For management it is measured in how many cases the pathologists can sign and therefore the administration can bill/collect
3- as the Lead Tech you are interested is the work output of your staff specially how many blocks each can section either per hour or per shift or how many minutes it takes to complete a FS. Mind that the ONLY productivity rate defined by CAP is the time a FS can be diagnosed from the moment it is received at histology and that has to be 20 minutes or less.
Nowadays almost every lab has an automated stainer so the number of slides has been "downgraded" as a productivity index, although it is not the same to prepare 1 than 20 slides.
The unit of time is also a subject of debate: some prefer the "hour" but from the whole lab the index most desired is the number of CASES a lab can complete every day.
Under separate cover I am sending you some articles I wrote on the subject so you can select those productivity indices most fit your lab.
René J.


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From: "Heckford, Karen - SMMC-SF" <Karen.Heckford <@t> DignityHealth.org>
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Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 1:42 PM
Subject: [Histonet] Productivity

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!!!!!!


Karen Heckford HT ASCP CE
Lead Histology Technician
St. Mary's Medical Center
450 Stanyan St.
San Francisco, Ca. 94117
415-668-1000 ext. 6167
karen.heckford <@t> dignityhealth.org
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