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.
The “Bed Placements by Hour” report makes it easy for patient placement staff and other hospital leaders to track high and low incoming patient placement rates, as well as in-house patient transfers, in order to better understand real-time capacity needs.
This tool provides the ability to measure activity by time of day. One popular way of viewing this is comparing Admits and Discharges by time of day as this can help hospital staff with their capacity planning efforts.
The tool allows users to dynamically select:
In addition, users can filter by:
These capabilities allow staff to an high level analysis and then quickly drill down to specific areas in order to identify the areas of focus in order to optimize process improvement efforts.
The report also helps users identify and address bottlenecks as they occur in the patient placement process, specifically between “Bed Requested” and “Bed Assigned,” and between “Bed Assigned” and “Patient Placed.”
Hospital leaders and placement staff alike can use the “Bed Placements by Hour” report to quickly view important patient placement metrics, including:
Like all BedWatch reports, the “Bed Placements by Hour” report can be filtered by date, unit(s), and request type (new placement vs. internal transfer).
For more information about BedWatch reports, or any of our patient throughput management tools, please contact us.
