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  SDM 2002™ - SDM95 -SDM2002 to SDM2020 Advancements (SDM Features Comparison)
 
 
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SDM95
SDM2000™
SDM2002™
SDM20/20™
Patient Care Model (PCM) built using
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Staff to patient ratios
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Workload thresh hold
 
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Minimum and Maximun Staffing
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Ratios split between staff categories
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4 to 12 hour shifts staffing models
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Week and weekend models
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Patient Ratios Authority™ validation
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Budgeting and finances of Patient Care Models . .
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Paid-Time-Off (PTO) calculator
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Non-productive % PTO
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Attrition rates by staff categories
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Training and Education by staff categories
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Cost and Hours based calculator
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PCM financial gap analysis
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Gap versus budget
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Gap versus actuals
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Premium pay impact
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Wage and differential tables
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Regular salaries
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Shift/Weekend pay differentials
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Premium differentials
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Orientation salaries
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Sitters expenses
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Multi-criteria for weighing salaries
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Mix of FTE types
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Indirect staff
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Salaries and FTE's allocation
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Type of staff
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PCM estimates per unit of service
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Paid cost per patient day
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Paid hours per patient day
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Work cost per patient day
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Work hours per patient day
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Week, Weekend and total needed FTEs
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Week, Weekend and total cost UOS
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Census analysis . .
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Volume descriptive statistics by care center
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Estimation of activity distribution by unit
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Seasonal and weekly variation by minihospital
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Relations between clinical cluster censuses
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DRG analysis for patient placements
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Patient type placement rule algorighm
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Recruitment and Retention . .
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Quarterly recruitment needs by job class code
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Attrition rate analysis
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Hires for top quartile schedules
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Recruitment language to attract new hires
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Vacancy elimination and agency usage auditor
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Hours of coverage by FTEs
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Traditional work week
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Non-traditional work week coverage
 
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Full 8+12 hours coverage
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Head count multipliers analysis
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Staff development . .
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Career ladders support
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Unit trials and staff shadowing
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Training and education on demand (ePreceptor™)
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EcoSize™ and TQS™ nursing leadership training
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Staff scheduling . .
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Top quartile scheduling (TQS™)
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Close units vs. float pools staff schedules
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Coverage for census fluctuations
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Protection for call-in and attrition rates
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Preservation of patient ratios
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2x shifts scheduling templates
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TopQuartileScheduler™
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PCMAuditor™ . .
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Admission, discharge and transfer monitoring
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Census gain(loss) percentages
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Ratios by job class
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2x shifts estimates for
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Cost of care at regular pay
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Premium pay cost
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Training and orientation cost
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Partial and total work hours
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Premium and orientation hours
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Variance hours and cost vs. PCM
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Any time frame estimates by minihospital for
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Hours variance vs. PCM
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Census activity
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Cost variance vs. PCM
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Patient ratios (by care provider or aggregated)
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Target census by unit
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Patient type/Indicators/QA monitoring
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