How many full-time employees does your POCT department staff?
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I am reaching out to see if anyone would be willing to share staffing information for their Point-of-Care Testing (POCT) department.
For context, our current health system includes three freestanding hospitals (1. 321 beds, 2. 906 beds, 3. 110 beds), one free standing emergency department, and approximately 90 outpatient locations. We are reviewing our current structure and would appreciate any insight into staffing models, FTE allocations, or coverage strategies that have been effective within your organization.
Also - does your department also service outpatient locations within your organization?
Also - does your department also service outpatient locations within your organization?
Thank you in advance for any information you are willing to share.
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I have 4.8 FTE not including myself responsible for day to day point of care activities. That being said, they are not all here every day and one of those FTE is a technical specialist.
Our point of care program is also very diverse. We have waived to High complexity testing in a limited-service containment laboratory.
We do about 1100 Moderate complexity observations per year and have about 6500 total operators (waive and moderate complexity).
I'm hoping to add another 1.2 FTE this year to support our containment laboratory.
I am the administrator of POCT for the system. We run under one procedure and Medicare number.
Instruments are standardized and I also have oversite for RT blood gases. System is licensed for about 1600 but I have no idea how many of those are actually in use. We do not have any other clinics or Medical Group practices.
The other full time POCT FTE is responsible for the biggest hospital about 500 beds. The comps and the inventory etc. are her responsibility.
For the other hospitals, which vary in size, there is a Lead Tech that has POCT duties assigned as "other duties as assigned" but whose main duties are on the bench. They might get 4 hours a month to do the POCT items. Not all of them have a BS degree. For those hospitals, I have to do the demo comps. I do have about 6 grandfathered experts who are BSN who assist.