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Abstract

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 of available beds may be preassigned different scores in two different departments. An overall score is independently determined for each health care department by adding the patient receiving areas component and the staffing level component, and optionally other factors.

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