National Comparative Database

CHALLENGE:

Improving the fiscal bottom line has led many healthcare organizations to use financially driven comparative databases as a basis for determining staff levels. Often there is no clinically based tool in place to assist them and no road map to help them make strategic decisions without impacting quality patient care. Benchmarking your facility - then knowing what course of action to take, presents an ongoing challenge.

SOLUTION:

GRASP National Comparative Database

In the U.S. and Canada, GRASP clients submit data quarterly and in return, receive reports back by department that illustrate how their facility compares to similar facilities.

This comprehensive report covers:

required and actual hours per patient per day
unit size
resource utilization
skill mix
aggregate data for unit and service comparison

This critical decision support tool arms you with the information required to see where and how you can make changes, and perhaps most important, the impact of these changes on staff utilization.

Time and Frequency Database

The original GRASP research involved time studies to determine the type and amount of care patients require. As research evolved, GRASP migrated from time studies to a consensus method. The results were comparable and easier to obtain.

With each new installation, GRASP Systems retains a copy of each facility's instruments by unit. Over the years, we've established the largest database of its kind. It encompasses the unique times and frequencies of direct care interventions in most areas of the healthcare continuum. Furthermore, as healthcare standards and practices continue to evolve, the data collected is reflective of the changes and available to our clients to facilitate process improvement throughout their facility.

How Our Databases Help GRASP and non-GRASP Facilities

If you're a GRASP client, our databases translate to faster implementation of GRASP at the outset and provide historical benchmarking data for continuing process improvement. Your GRASP consultant will keep you updated with the maximum, minimum, median, mode, and average time for each intervention on each unit relevant to your facility.

If your facility is not using GRASP, you can still access these valuable databases to help increase utilization, identify deficiencies, and improve patient quality. Information is available for specific departments/units, or comparable facilities in the US and Canada. This provides you with the concrete data necessary to make the right decisions for your organization.

Our databases have proven to be valuable tools for hundreds of GRASP and non-GRASP facilities in three countries. It could be your missing piece, as well. For more information on how to put our databases to work for you, contact us .