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Create Virtual Beds with Aggressive Throughput Management
QHR, September 18, 2007
Meeting Patient Flow Demands with Creative Case Management
It's a familiar story. A hospital has to put its emergency department on "divert" status. Patients are stacking up in hallways waiting for inpatient beds to become available. The operating suites are running behind schedule, delayed because of overcrowding in the recovery room.
The American health system is in the grip of a chronic shortage: there are not enough beds... or are there?
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