Staffing, Budgeting, and Business Planning
A sustainable palliative care program depends upon making realistic assumptions about staff capacity and patient volumes. Use this toolkit to translate program operational and service decisions into a budget and business plan, and also to consider the financial implications of program design and operations decisions.
What’s in the Toolkit
Hospital-Based Program Staffing and Budget
Budget templates and guidance for hospital-based palliative care programs.
Annotated budget worksheet that can be customized based on your program's patient, service, and staffing assumptions.
Building a budget and a business plan for the inpatient program. Includes business planning tools.
Training and a template for creating a business plan for your inpatient service.
Join this Virtual Office to discuss hospital palliative care program start-up, or scaling a new or established inpatient program.
Community-Based Program Staffing and Budgeting
Budget templates and guidance for community-based palliative care programs.
Staffing models and benchmarks used by home-based programs.
Guidance on dosing interventions allocating visit frequency based on patient risk.
Customizable workbook for community-based programs to create cost projections and key financial stats.
Qualitative explanation of budgeting and finding opportunities for cost-efficiency.
Building a budget and a business plan for the community-based program. Includes business planning tools.
This Virtual Office Hour covers business planning for new or growing palliative care programs across settings.
Includes 19 resources:
- Designing for Efficiency
- Optimizing Productivity
Includes 21 resources:
- Introduction to Payment
- Fee-for-Service Billing
- Value-Based Payment
- Foundation Fundraising Guidance
Includes 14 resources:
- Relationship Basics
- Selling Your Program
- Contracting Resources