What is SDM20/20™?
Our SDM20/20™ methodology is designed to create stable and sustainable clinical operations that protect your staffing plans and financial expectations. We achieve this by:
- Stabilizing clinical operations and ensuring sustainable care assignments.
- Redefining staff counts and schedules for optimal efficiency.
- Calculating comprehensive labor budgets that fully account for the cost of care, recruitment and retention, PTO, and contingency needs.
As our core methodology, SDM20/20™ provides a complete staffing optimization and acuity solution, strategically repositioning workload to make staffing predictable while significantly lowering overall costs.
How is SDM20/20™ different?
Acuity is not a measure of patient illness, it’s a measure of work. The workload that an RN or clinical team can manage encompasses more than a patient’s illness. SDM20/20™ is a unique methodology-based solution that sustains proper clinical workloads, eliminating the need for day to day, shift to shift adjustments in staffing. Our acuity methodology:
- supports proper clinical care assignments
- assesses infrastructure and core care teams
- determines and hard wires each unit’s non-productive demands
- defines acuity practice and workload changers
- provides analytics to monitor proper workloads and assignments
- incorporates ADT (churn factor) into proper workloads
Incorporating the SDM20/20™ methodology into your daily operations results in:
Nash Analytics™
An integral part of the SDM20/20™ methodology is Nash Analytics™. This unique business intelligence system provides productivity management and budget tools for clinical and non-clinical departments to validate operational and financial performance. Nash Analytics™ contains all the needed tools for analyzing, designing, and monitoring the SDM20/20™ methodology.