ABSTRACT
Today, the circumstances surrounding the medical economy are severer than ever. Therefore, it is vitally important for a hospital to rationalize management and implement a labor-saving system drastically.In October 2000, Atsumi Hospital moved to a newly built complex. At that time, those sections and departments which do not have any direct relation to medical treatment and care were restructured and established a supply center in order to use human resources effectivily.Before the establishment of the supply center, we had reviewd simple, routine tasks such as ward nursing assistant services, office work and management itself. While introducing our hospital supply center in this paper, we compare efficiencies before and after the move to the new building and dwell on advantages of centralization of ward nursing services.The rearrangement of the personnel, materials and information has made it possible to increase the efficiency of simple work and reduce the number of nursing assistants by 20%. Henceforth, it would be necessary to educate the staff, work on proper personnel changes, carefully make a plan for outsourcing, and choose trustworthy dealers.
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Workforce , WorkABSTRACT
Before we moved into the present hospital building in October 2000, we took the opportunity to thoroughly review our medical equipment management system and developed a new centralized management system. With the introduction of the new system, we have made a complete list [an inventory] of medical equipment on hand from small-size instruments to large-scale machinery. We have now become able to grasp the frequency of use of ME, the cause of mechanical trouble, the cost of repairing and so forth. In the future, this system will be further improved so as to enable us to incorporate a labor-saving procedure for equipment lending into the system, share information with other departments, and work out a net working rate and repair rate to make purchasing or disposal plans.Medical care and health services of today cannot be provided without use of modern medical equipment. Under the circumstances, the prevention of accidents and grasp of the optimum amount of machinery and equipment are important. At the same time, the reduction of cost by adequate maintenance work is essential. We think that our centralized equipment management system will work effectively and serve the purpose.
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Work , HospitalsABSTRACT
With the advent of a society in which the number of elderly people is increasing and the number of babies a woman gives birth to in her lifetime is decreasing, how to address to the future financial broblem of the nation's health insurance schemes has come up for discussion. Against the backdrop of quantitative repletion of medical care, the government has come pu with a policy calling for the containment of medical costs. Under the circumstances, it is expected that the proceeds from medical treatment will level off in years to come. To cope with the situation, the Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives for Welfare in Aichi Prefecture has planned to install a department-wise cost control system in its member hospitals with eht aim of making all staff members cost-conscious, profit-minded and futrure-oriented in every department. In this paper, the authors will present the system in outline and show the target number of patients set on the basis of the break-even point, financial analyses of departments where revenues are below the break-even point and measures to deal with deficits case by case. In addition, as a task to be tackled with, the need for the omprovement of the accuracy and the standardization of the system will be discussed.