Bed Management Solution for Hospitals

Inefficient Bed Management is a problem at healthcare facilities nationwide. The decrease in hospital bed capacity isn’t only an annoyance for hospitals but can also have consequences on patient care. This is particularly true in areas such as the emergency department, where more and more patients are being boarded on stretchers and treated in hallways in hospital EDs when they need to be admitted. The bed shortages put patient’s health and safety in jeopardy and can lead to legal exposure, as well as decreasing satisfaction. Ineffective Bed Management process exists in other areas of hospitals as well. Sometimes patients have to wait in operating, recovery and intensive-care units because specialized surgical beds are not available for them. All these deficiencies have a direct effect on the health system. To make matters worse– these inefficiencies are often anecdotal, as most institutions have very little systematic data on their bed utilization and throughput metrics.

But what if you could:

Our clients realize value every single day! Why? Because the InSites Enabled™ Bed Management solution from FluentCare, provides our clients with not only the technology platform but also the process expertise and methodologies to resolve Bed Management issues and achieve quantifiable results.

With the InSites Enabled™ Bed Management solution, you will be able to:

Provide your staff with instant access to current bed and patient status

Give nursing, transport, and environmental services staff a simple way to clearly visualize what beds are available and where – all in real time. No more unnecessary phone calls or room scouting. Hidden beds will now be a thing from the past.

Improve organizational performance with no burden on staff

Capturing asset utilization, bed turnover metrics, and transport wait times can now be done without having to inconvenience staff.  Even room status can be automatically updated on the bed board with no human interaction!

Improve interdepartmental communication

Managing hospital beds is a process that involves many human resources from Charge Nurses, Patient Transportation staff to Environmental Services crew. With InSites’ ability to send messages to mobile devices, such as PDAs or iPhones, you can minimize communication delays to ensure that patients are transitioned to the appropriate level of care in the fastest possible manner.

Improve bed utilization rates by reducing the time beds sit idle

Automatically send a task assignment to housekeeping as soon as a patient leaves a room allowing for immediate dispatch of cleaning personnel. In addition, you can set the escalation process whenever the bed has not been cleaned within a preset time after patient discharge.  And when the bed status changes from “dirty” to “clean” you can  automatically notify appropriate staff allowing for faster assignments of beds to patients.

Understand your operational performance in real time to improve processes

To get a handle on Bed Management inefficiencies, it’s important to record and evaluate data on what’s happening on a day-to-day basis at the facility. With access to real-time and historic reports, you can determine how many beds do you actually have, how many beds did you need, for how long and where did you need them. Supported with this information you will be able to quickly identify operational bottlenecks and areas needing improvement.

Improve patient satisfaction and revenue opportunities

Faster bed turnover means shorter wait times which directly reduces the chance of patients leaving without being seen or without treatment. As result, not only you will enhance your patient’s experience, but also realize higher income potential from increased admissions.

Improve the effectiveness of your existing systems

With InSites, you can incorporate the real-time location data into your existing Bed Management or EMR solutions to make them even better. Easily find the areas where the demand for beds exceeds the number of available beds and take proactive actions on the departmental and the enterprise level.

At Intelligent InSites, we are focused on helping you achieve REAL OUTCOMES to REAL SITUATIONS. There is a lot of value, but we know you need to be able to prove how any investment delivers a return. Our team focuses on this during all stages of our engagement with our clients. Interested in learning more? We’d love to be able to walk you through the Six Steps to the Real-Time Enterprise and determine where that bottom line impact is for you.

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