Major Markets and Relationships with Outcomes & Value
Picking up where we left off…we’re exploring differences in major markets and whether there is a solid relationship between this key staffing metric and outcomes.
First, looking at the top 5 major markets:
- There are wide staffing level variations within each market
- There are wide staffing level variations among these markets
- High FTE’s/AD-CMI adj. impacts cash flow negatively with market-specific benefit to outcomes within and among the markets
Below find tables of FTE’s/AD-CMI adj. and HVBP Total Performance Scores of the top 5 major markets. (We are using HVBP-Total Performance Score as an important overarching outcome measure.)
What we see is remarkable:
For Staffing across the Top 5 markets we can see that:
- Houston has the best staffing ratios of any of these Top 5 Markets with
- Chicago a close second
- New York has the worst staffing ratios of the top 5 markets across the board
For HVBP Performance across the Top 5 markets:
- LA is the best performer overall with
- Chicago a close second
- New York has the worst HVBP Performance Score
The real story is found by looking at the two metrics together, where we see:
- In 4 of these top 5 markets there is a relationship between FTEs/Adjusted Discharge-CMI Adjusted and the HVBP Total Performance Score. As labor goes up, so do outcomes.
- As FTEs/100 Adjusted Discharges continue trending down, how will hospitals in these major markets sustain improving outcomes?
- Only in Philadelphia do we see a reverse relationship between FTE labor and HVBP Outcomes. At high levels of FTE/AD staffing, Outcomes suffer significantly. Yet they are no better than Houston at low staffing ratios. Not a good story.
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