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Balancing Staffing Levels
Staffing ratios define the relationship between your revenue-producing employees and the staff needed to support them.
According to the Agency for Health Research and Quality (AHRQ)6, the risk of nurse burnout increases by 23% and dissatisfaction by 15%
for each additional patient. However, when hospitals have accurate staffing, nurse burnout and dissatisfaction can drop significantly.
Studies suggest7 that the higher the ratio of support staff per FTE physician, the greater the percentage of medical revenue after operating
cost. Health systems with higher nurse employment had a 25% lower chance of receiving penalizations for readmissions through HRRP
than those that had lower nurse staffing levels8.
6 Linda Aiken, et. al., “Hospital Nurse Staffing and Patient Mortality, Nurse Burnout, and Job Satisfaction,” The Journal
of the American Medica