Health unit assessment tool
CA 2529079 C · Owner: Frazier, Carmen Vincent · Inventors: Epler, John; Frazier, Carmen Vincent
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0101 The invention is a normalized scoring method and apparatus for the patient care departments of a health care facility having more than one scored patient care department. The scoring method can be used for example, to , direct additional resources to departments that are less well staffed or have fewer available beds or other patient receiving areas than other departments relative to need. For each scored health care department scores are , preassigned to different numbers of available beds or other patient receiving areas and to different staffing levels in the department. Different departments are independently scored, so the same number of available workers or the same number …
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- Filed June 10, 2004 and granted May 5, 2015. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 10, 2024.
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