Ep. 031: Stop Funding Chaos: How Organizations Pay for Emergencies and Ignore Prevention

WE FUND CHAOS, STARVE PREVENTION, AND CALL IT DISCIPLINE A periop director brought her executive team a $300,000 two year plan to fix workflows, training, and staffing. They said no budget. Six months later, eight people quit in three weeks and the hospital spent over a million dollars on agency staff, overtime, and recruiting. Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs calls it the trauma budget, and the prevention tax every organization pays for it. IN THIS EPISODE • Why budgets that were too tight for raises suddenly open up when things are on fire • The hardware and software check: financial systems built for widgets, leaders trained in crisis mode • Everything has an ROI: retention, efficiency, innovation, reputation, and outcomes • Five ways to build a prevention focused budget, starting with "can we afford not to?" YOUR CHALLENGE Pull your last three years of financials, total your crisis spending, and ask what 10% of it could have prevented. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Bred To Lead is powered by SIPS Healthcare Solutions.