Applications of staffing, scheduling, and budgeting methodologies to hospital ancillary units.

A computer-aided methodology for integrating the budgeting, staffing, and labor productivity systems of Ancillary Services using Respiratory Therapy as an example is presented. The data needed, staffing computations and schedules, and productivity analysis are presented and discussed. A summary of the predicted savings and other benefits for the application hospital are presented with comparisons to present productivity systems.