Regional benchmarks show how you stack up

Measure yourself against these key indicators

Did you ever wonder how your labor hours per discharge fared compared to other hospitals in your region? In the first of a new monthly feature, Healthcare Benchmarks will help you answer that question.

MECON, a San Ramon, CA, consulting firm, shares some of its data with readers this month.

The company bases its information on financial, organizational, and operational data gathered directly from a Web-based, proprietary database product called MECON-PEERnext. MECON benchmarks are drawn directly from hundreds of health care facilities and systems and track 31,000 items of information in over 280 departments. (For examples of available data from MECON, see chart, below, and bar graphs, p. 47.)

For more information about MECON products and services, visit the Web site at mecon.com, or call (925) 838-1700.