Capacity Management/Patient Flow

Increase bed utilization with better throughput.  There are two ways to confront capacity and access issues within a hospital; with bricks and mortar or with effective patient flow. We can help you identify your throughput challenges and drive performance within the hospital. Increased patient throughput creates additional virtual beds.  By understanding admission and discharge trends, and bed allocation, hospitals can effectively allocate staffing and capital resources.

Emergency Department Throughput

Identify Emergency Department Trends

Hospitals struggle with ED overcrowding and throughput regardless of bed availability. Understanding your ED's capacity and throughput challenges will help alleviate these challenges.

Emergency Department Admissions

Promote the timely and safe transition of patients from the ED to their assigned beds. Identify potential bottle necks and promote accountability among the the ED staff and the destination ICU or floor.

• Identify bottlenecks and Increase Patient Access
• Understand the Patterns of ED Volume.
• Increase ED Room Availability

Patient Transport

Timely and efficient patient transport supports effective patient flow.  We are experts in measuring:

• Peak Demand Analysis
• Staff Productivity
• Service Consistency
• Trip Turnaround
  

Environmental Services

Bed Turnover is a vitally important component of bed utilization and patient flow.  We are experts in measuring:

• Peak Demand Analysis
• Staff Productivity
• Service Consistency
• Bed Turnaround

Procedure Areas

We can help you measure how effectively your procedure areas are using their rooms and staff. Our reporting solutions can show productivity by MD, room occupancy and procedure duration. We can produce day of week and hour of day analysis and allow you to measure trends over time.

Outpatient Clinics

• Registration Times
• Clinic Room Time
• Volume Analysis
• Service Analysis
• Staff Productivity