This is one thing I'm trying to find out!!
Joyce Weems
Pathology Manager
Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta


	-----Original Message-----
	From:	MacDonald, Jennifer [SMTP:jmacdonald@sach.org]
	Sent:	Wednesday, July 19, 2000 2:02 PM
	To:	Ford, Judi {Path~Palo Alto}; Weems, Joyce; 'Histonet'; 'Tom
T. McNemar'
	Subject:	RE: Workload/Productivity

	How do you corelate workload to FTEs?  ie. How many people are
required per
	slides cut, etc.

	Jennifer MacDonald

	> ----------
	> From: 	Tom T. McNemar[SMTP:TMcNemar@lmhealth.org]
	> Sent: 	Wednesday, July 19, 2000 10:15 AM
	> To: 	Ford, Judi {Path~Palo Alto}; 'Weems, Joyce'; 'Histonet'
	> Subject: 	RE: Workload/Productivity
	> 
	> We used to assign CAP workload units to each task.  It was a
hassle.  The
	> past several years I have just tracked the number of:
	> 	Blocks processed each month
	> 	Slides cut
	> 	Frozen sections performed
	> 	Specimens received
	> 	Special stains performed
	> 	IHC cases and # of antibodies used
	> 	Thinprep PAPs processed vs. conventional smears
	> This has proven to be sufficient justification of
people/equipment.
	> 
	> Tom Mc Nemar
	> Pathology Supervisor
	> Licking Memorial Hospital
	> Newark, Ohio
	> 
	> > -----Original Message-----
	> > From:	Ford, Judi {Path~Palo Alto}
[SMTP:JUDI.FORD@ROCHE.COM]
	> > Sent:	Tuesday, July 18, 2000 4:40 PM
	> > To:	'Weems, Joyce'; 'Histonet'
	> > Subject:	RE: Workload/Productivity
	> > 
	> > Okay!  Our lab is a research facility.  The way we measure
productivity
	> is
	> > to count the number of tissues/blocks/slides and sections
produced each
	> > month by the lab as a whole.  We also count the number of
special stain
	> > slides and sections, which isn't very high as we don't do that
many.
	> Hope
	> > this helps.
	> > 
	> > Judi Ford
	> > Palo Alto, CA  
	> > 
	> > > -----Original Message-----
	> > > From:	Weems, Joyce [SMTP:JWEEMS@sjha.org]
	> > > Sent:	Monday, July 17, 2000 1:51 PM
	> > > To:	'Histonet'
	> > > Subject:	Workload/Productivity
	> > > 
	> > > Let's have an exciting discussion about workload! 
	> > > How is everyone counting it and measuring productivity? TIA,
j:>) 
	> > > Joyce Weems
	> > > Pathology Manager
	> > > Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta
	> > > 
	>