Not all bed turnover requests are created equally.
Not all bed turnover requests are created equally.
Topics: performance improvement- hospital throughput- Patient Flow- patient throughput- hospital flow- News- patient transport- patient satisfaction
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As winter storms pummel the northeast, hospitals face the prospect of damage to dated infrastructure, or of surges in patient volume and ED cases due to the closings of clinics and doctors’ offices — both of which can significantly affect their ability to provide effective patient care.
Topics: Patient Flow- patient throughput- hospital closures- News- hospital damage- hospital operations- weather damage- winter storms
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ED throughput is a chronic source of delays and headaches for many hospitals.
Topics: Patient Flow- Patient Throughput Technology- emergency department throughput- ed patient flow- ed throughput- hospital patient throughput- improving ed throughput- improving length of stay- length of stay- Patient Flow Technology- reducing length of stay- News- hospital patient flow- ed patient throughput technology- ed patient throughput tools
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Nurse leaders are the front-line users who actively implement and utilize new healthcare tools; it is critical that these tools are designed and developed with the needs of those nurse users in mind, providing ease-of-use and automating inefficient process to reduce delays associated with time-consuming administrative tasks.
Topics: Patient Flow- patient throughput- News- health IT- healthcare tech- nurse cio- throughput- nurse tech- nurse technology- nurse technology specialist
Read MoreSince 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
Read MoreAs the U.S. healthcare market shifts from a pay-for-procedure model to one that focuses on overall population health, hospital leaders must optimize the way their hospitals operate on a daily basis, in order to provide the best possible patient experience while maximizing valuable – and increasingly limited – hospital resources.
Topics: Patient Flow- patient throughput- News- hospital patient flow- building hospitals of the future- hospital communication- hospital construction- hospital design- patient flow in hospitals
Read MoreBedWatch Bed Control administrative users now have the ability to flag specific units within the hospital as “Temporary Units.” This ensures patient movements to and from these temporary units will not automatically trigger discharge clean requests to housekeeping.
Topics: hospital throughput- Patient Flow- Patient Throughput Technology- patient throughput- hospital flow- Patient Flow Technology- Patient Flow Tools- News- Patient Throughput Tools- bedwatch- patient flow in hospitals
Read MoreBedWatch Bed Control, BedWatch Transport Control, and BedWatch Admit Control feature customizable escalation notifications, which can be configured to meet the needs of each individual hospital partner, in order to minimize delays and ensure processes move forward as efficiently as possible.
Topics: Patient Flow- patient throughput- bed management- Patient Flow Technology- News- patient transport- hospital patient flow- patient placement- Hospital bed management
Read MorePatient 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
Read MorePatient throughput processes often see delays due to a wide range of obstacles, which can be extremely hard to pin-point without comprehensive, time- and date-stamped metrics following each step of the process. BedWatch Bed Control is designed specifically to help hospitals harness their own day-to-day performance data in order to drive lasting improvement in throughput processes, hospital-wide.
Topics: hospital throughput- Patient Flow- Patient Flow Tools- News- hospital data tools- hospital process improvement- improve patient flow- improve patient throughput- patient throughput. hospital flow- process improvement tools- healthcare process improvement- throughput tools
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