Optimize Surgical Inpatient Flow
Optimizing Surgical Inpatient Flow helps hospitals reduce variability in their flow of electively scheduled inpatient surgeries to reduce challenging high volume admission days. This ensures inpatient surgical beds are used efficiently across the days of the week, and allows for more accurate bed capacity planning.
Do You Experience any of these issues?
- Days of high admissions to surgical beds
- Staff stress related to busy shifts on surgical units
- High or low occupancy in surgical beds
- Challenges ensuring beds for surgical patients as a result of medical patient placement
- Challenges ensuring patient placement on the preferred unit
- Challenges with patient throughput, including the Emergency Department
- Desire to more effectively plan for surgical bed requirements
The benefits of Optimizing Surgical Inpatient Flow can include:
- Effectively plan for inpatient surgical bed requirements
- Evaluate resourcing plans to address any forecasted changes in surgical admission volume
- Develop strong processes & procedures to ensure sustainability
- Increase the number of patients that can be treated, including outside transfers and referrals
- Reduce nursing overload, overtime, and turnover
- Achieve maximal compliance with patient-per-nurse staffing ratios without adding staff
- Assure patients are placed in the correct beds
- Improve patient, doctor, and nurse satisfaction
- Reduce patient wait times for services
- Reduce cost and increase revenue
- Reduce hospital overcrowding
- Lower overall hospital length of stay
- Improve access to care and patient throughput for outpatient services without adding costly resources
Results from organizations that have worked with IHO »
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