Modeling of Healthcare Facility Maintenance Staff Using Publicly Reported Hospital Metrics

9 pages•Published: June 9, 2021

Abstract

Operational staffing is an ongoing concern for the built environment industries. The proper staffing of maintenance personnel at hospital facilities to ensure optimal operations in the event of emergencies and disasters is an issue that has been the focus of continuing research. While a fair amount of scholarship has been dedicated to healthcare staffing in hospitals, such as nursing, there is a lack of research on identifying proper staffing for facility management related professions in hospital facilities. Numerous utilization metrics, such as admissions, and facility metrics, such as Gross Square Feet (GSF), have been proposed as potential predictive measures for making staffing allocations. This study was conducted to identify predictors of maintenance Full Time Equivalents (FTEs) using publicly published data by the Washington State Department of Health. A linear regression was performed on maintenance FTEs at these healthcare facilities using the predictor variables, GSF, admissions, available beds, and Plant, Property, & Equipment (PPE), R2 = .625, F (3,84) = 46.59, p = .000. This research suggests that benchmarking efforts can be supplemented through regularly published hospital data to utilize a wide variety of predictor variables. Future research should focus on developing models that can be applied at a national level.

Keyphrases: Benchmarking, Facilities Management, Healthcare, Staffing

In: Tom Leathem, Anthony J. Perrenoud and Wesley Collins (editors). ASC 2021. 57th Annual Associated Schools of Construction International Conference, vol 2, pages 108--116

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/RbVG
	https://doi.org/10.29007/g4zh