Ambulatory Surgery

RRM Category: AMBULATORY CLINIC

Overview

The RRM Ambulatory Surgery staffing module estimates the requirements for general surgeons to provide all general surgery services other than inpatient surgery, OB/GYN surgery and delivery services. The driver for the allocation of staff in this module is the number of general surgery cases. The minimum workload for Surgery and Anesthesiology is 200 cases. The ambulatory surgery cases should be counted as part of the general surgery cases for staffing. Nursing services for surgery are covered in the Inpatient Nursing modules. The hospital RRM module does not provide these FTE s. They need to be approved and added as deviations.

Services Description:

The Ambulatory Surgery Clinic provides surgical services on an out patient basis.

Staffing Criteria

Ambulatory Surgery staff of 1.50 FTEs for an ambulatory facility with at least 200 general ambulatory surgery cases annually, plus 1.00 FTE Ambulatory Surgery staff for every 190 ambulatory surgery cases above 200.

Staffing Formulae

Driving Variables:

Ambulatory Surgery Cases

Personnel Categories:

General Surgeon

FIXED STAFFING LEVELS

Plus, VARIABLE STAFFING LEVELS: