New Approach

DP — 2009-04-21T01:19:41Z

Hospital Management Software - Bed Management

Here is a link to a document "A New Approach to Acute Care Hospital Bed Management"

proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc03/p0112.pdf

Bed Management is crucial

DP — 2009-03-23T23:25:23Z

Hospital Management Software - Bed Management

Let us take the case of Maternity ward. Let us say we have 30 beds. This means we have 900 bed nights. On an average let us say a patient stays for 4 days. 900 divided by 4 gives us a figure of 225 patients can be handled. On the other hand if the patient stays for 5 days, hospital will have capacity to handle only 180 patients. Hospital might decide that they will take about 200 bookings for each month.

That sounds quite all right. However, the delivery date is only a probable date. Hospital does not know whether the delivery will be normal or a cesarean delivery. So, hospital may not have same number of would be mothers presenting themselves every day. This means hospital ends up having very busy days as wel as easy days.

In other wards it may be even more complex to manage the occupancy. There has to be a balance between the opertion theatre capacity and the number of beds available.If there are too many theaters operating at full capacity, there may not be enough beds for post-op care.

How does your hospital manage the beds?