New research published in Operations Research shows that health care systems can substantially reduce overtime, idle time, and overall staffing costs by adopting a multilocation, dynamic ...

If you’ve ever seen a hospital struggling with understaffed and overwhelmed doctors and nurses, you know how critical workforce planning is. The right staffing ensures quality care, while poor ...

The prediction of staffing requirements for enterprises is part of the essential structure of any business or agency. Too low a staffing level directly impacts the ability of the enterprise to ...

In all but one hospital department of St. Charles Health System, a new state safe staffing level plan — designed to protect patients and keep nurses from burning out — has been put in place. The one ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. The Committee on Facilities Staffing Requirements for Veterans Health Administration ...