|
 Year-to-Date Staffing for
1996/97 and comparison with 1995/96*
| Staffing Category |
Staffing Numbers (FTE) |
| Direct Patient Care Staffing |
1995/96 |
1996/97 |
| .....Medical |
1486.55 |
1281.12 |
| .....Nursing |
8750.96 |
8453.83 |
| .....Medical and Technical
Support |
3307.88 |
3694.43 |
| Indirect Patient
Care Staffing |
|
| .....Administration |
3862.81 |
4378.72 |
| .....Hotel Services |
3772.26 |
3446.95 |
| .....Maintenance |
941.68 |
364.50 |
| Total Staffing
(FTE)——>> |
22,122.14 |
21,619.56 |
|
|
|
| Statewide
FTE |
|
|
| |
1995/96 |
1996/97 |
|
Metro |
16,580.96 |
16,365.44 |
|
Rural |
5,541.18 |
5,254.12 |
| * 1995/96 Data sourced
from Staff Actuals System (discontinued) and self report, 1996/97 data sourced from the
Human Resource Information System through the Minimum Obligatory Information Requirements.
Refinement of FTE matching between systems is still in process. |
| Summary of
Hospital Services |
| |
1993/94 |
1994/95 |
1995/96 |
1996/97 |
| Tertiary hospitals |
|
|
|
|
| Total public hospital separations |
167,938 |
176,104 |
188,400 |
201,296 |
| -(includes same-day admissions) |
90,550 |
97,896 |
108,678 |
122,898 |
| Total occupied bed-days |
751,942 |
745,082 |
754,597 |
725,270 |
| |
|
|
|
|
| Secondary hospitals |
|
|
|
|
| Metropolitan |
|
|
|
|
| Total public hospital separations |
64,740 |
60,387 |
61,365 |
54,074 |
| -(includes same-day admissions) |
25,467 |
26,113 |
27,964 |
25,757 |
| Total occupied bed-days |
205,422 |
209,536 |
206,491 |
190,879 |
| Non-metropolitan |
|
|
|
|
| Total public hospital separations |
102,379 |
101,188 |
104,797 |
100,570 |
| -(includes same-day admissions) |
42,076 |
42,971 |
47,559 |
47,759 |
| Total occupied bed-days |
545,217 |
527,917 |
532,891 |
407,668 |
| |
|
|
|
|
| Patients admitted from teaching
hospitals |
|
|
|
|
| waiting lists for elective surgery |
n/a |
29,026 |
30,246 |
30,971 |
| Median waiting time on list (in months) |
|
4.7 |
4.5 |
4.5 |
| Number of additions to list each month |
|
3,180 |
3,149 |
3,839 |
- Separation is the process by which an admitted patient
completes an episode of care.
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