Optimize Medical Inpatient Flow

Optimize Medical Inpatient Flow

Optimizing Medical Inpatient Flow will help organizations codify patient placement goals,properly allocate the number of beds across units and optimize staffing to achieve the desired level of service to improve operational, financial, and clinical performance.

Operations Management tools such as Simulation Queuing Models make it possible for organizations to predict and manage the variability of random patient demand, generally associated with clinically-driven arrivals. These tools allow managers to make informed judgments on the resource capacity needed to serve variable demand flows, such as in different medicine services.

Do You Experience any of these issues?

  • Extensive ED boarding including overnight holds in the ED
  • Many medical patients on surgical units, especially on weekends
  • High or low occupancy medical or mixed med/surg unit(s)
  • Hallway placement of medical inpatients
  • Perceived bottleneck unit(s)
  • Inconsistent admission / discharge criteria
  • High readmission rates to particular units
  • Excessively long length of stay particularly in higher levels of care

The benefits of Optimizing Medical Inpatient Flow can include:

  • Placement of patients in the preferred units
  • Decreased waits and ED boarding
  • Decreased inter-unit transfers
  • Improved ED and inpatient unit staff satisfaction
  • Potential decrease in ALOS
  • Related quality improvements in decreased readmissions, decreased use of RRTs, decreased rate of HAIs and patient safety issues

Results from organizations that have worked with IHO »

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