I guess we are justified in a couple of ways.  On one hand, our FTEs are
justified through the lab as lab employees based on the entire labs billable
tests and the average cost of all tests.  On the other hand, the actual
Pathology FTEs are justified by our increasing workload.

Tom Mc Nemar
Pathology Supervisor
Licking Memorial Hospital
Newark, Ohio

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Weems, Joyce [SMTP:JWEEMS@sjha.org]
> Sent:	Wednesday, July 19, 2000 4:23 PM
> To:	'Tom T. McNemar'; Ford, Judi {Path~Palo Alto}; 'Histonet'
> Subject:	RE: Workload/Productivity
> 
> The thing is - how much is enough to justify bodies? To look at our case
> load one would think we are overstaffed. However, for the level of service
> our pathologists require, it's all we can do to keep up! 
> 
> Several years ago I remember seeing statistics on ratio of tech and lab
> assistant to pathologists. Does anyone remember anything like this? Does
> anyone have it!!??
> Joyce Weems
> Pathology Manager
> Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta
> 
> 
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From:	Tom T. McNemar [SMTP:TMcNemar@lmhealth.org]
> 	Sent:	Wednesday, July 19, 2000 11:15 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
> 	> >