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New Report Summarizes Average Patient Transportation Completion Times by Month to Simplify Performance Assessment

Steve Jourdan - Oct 5, 2016 9:22:00 AM

BedWatch Transport Control now features a specialized “Average Transport Completion Times by Month” report which aggregates average completion times into a clear, dynamic report that can easily be exported as an image to simplify internal performance reporting.

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New Admit Control Features Allow Hospital EDs to Track Patients Pending Discharge vs. Patients Pending Transfer to Surgery

Steve Jourdan - Aug 24, 2016 12:30:00 PM

BedWatch Admit Control users making bed requests within the Emergency Department (ED) now have the ability to indicate whether the patient in question will be discharged, or if he or she will be transferred to surgery, in order to help patient placement staff within the hospital better anticipate incoming patient volume from the ED.

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“Bed Placements by Hour” Report Helps Hospital Patient Placement Teams Understand Real-Time Capacity Information

Steve Jourdan - Aug 10, 2016 8:50:00 AM

BedWatch Admit Control features a “Bed Placements by Hour” report, which allows all Admit Control users within a hospital or system to access accurate data around daily patient placement activity, hour by hour.

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BedWatch Brings Real-Time Visibility to Your Hospital: Pending Patient Moves

Steve Jourdan - Jul 27, 2016 1:11:00 PM

BedWatch provides increased visibility in a variety of ways. In this post, we’ll explore how BedWatch helps improve patient flow and hospital visibility into pending patient moves, including admissions, transfers, and discharges.

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Patient Placement Staff Can Request Beds and Place Patients Using an iPhone

Steve Jourdan - Mar 9, 2016 10:55:00 AM

BedWatch Admit Control is fully mobile, like all BedWatch products, and allows users to access the full spectrum of tools using any Internet-capable device — even a smartphone.

Topics: Bed Turnover Improvement- Patient Flow- hospital flow- patient placement tools- News- health IT- healthcare tech- healthcare technology- Bed Turnover- fixing patient throughput- hospital patient flow- patient placement- BedWatch technology- patient wait times- Hospital bed management

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160-Bed Pennsylvania Hospital Cuts Average Bed Turnover Time by 50% in First 30 Days

Steve Jourdan - Jul 27, 2015 1:01:00 AM

This 160-bed hospital in Pennsylvania brought BedWatch Bed Control on board in December 2014 to help address slow turnover times and a lack of bed visibility.

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Proactively Manage Bed Turnover & Discharge Cleans with the BedWatch EVS Bed Board

Steve Jourdan - Dec 10, 2014 10:29:00 AM

The BedWatch EVS Bed Board provides EVS managers and other hospital leaders with a clear, current view of all beds that need discharge cleans or are in the process of being cleaned and turned over for the next patient.

Topics: hospital throughput- patient throughput- batching beds- bed turnover times- faster discharge cleans- faster patient placement- hospital evs- hospital evs management- hospital housekeeping- improving bed turnover- News- Bed Turnover- faster bed turnover- fixing patient throughput- Patient Throughput Tools- patient wait times- discharge clean- discharge cleans management

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200-Bed Louisiana Hospital Reduces Avg. Patient Transport Completion Time Despite 28% Increase in Transport Requests

Steve Jourdan - Nov 15, 2014 5:16:00 PM

Since implementing BedWatch Transport Control and Patient Transport Services on a limited, trial basis in January 2011, and then expanding the scope of the transport department and rolling out the service to the entire hospital, this 200-bed Louisiana hospital has successfully driven improvement while handling increasing numbers of patient transport requests each year.

Topics: Results- Patient Flow- centralized transport department- hospital patient transportation- improving patient transport- patient transport management- patient transportation tools- fixing patient throughput- patient transport technology- Patient Transport Tools- patient transportation

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Building a Successful Patient Throughput Committee

Steve Jourdan - Jun 18, 2014 10:00:00 AM

Patient throughput, also called patient flow, is often a source of headaches for hospital administrators and department leaders. Bottlenecks or breakdowns at any point in the process can cause unnecessary inefficiency and significant wait times for patients and placement staff.

Topics: Patient Flow- hospital patient throughput- News- fixing patient throughput- hospital patient flow- patient flow committee- patient flow improvement- patient throughput committee- patient throughput improvement

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