Expanding a Hospital is Expensive

Any way you look at it, building or expanding a hospital is expensive! Experts estimate up to $1.4 million per bed in construction costs. But maybe there is another way? One hospital uses “smart assignment” to serve over 120,000 patients annually with a facility originally designed to serve only 40,000. Amazingly, wait times are under five minutes and “Left Without Being Seens” (LWBS) are near zero. And all this is done with just 38 beds. Perhaps necessity is the mother of invention?

Immediately Free Up Capacity 

This immediate capacity gift comes from dramatically reducing patient Length of Stay (LOS). The net result is patients get in and get out faster using less hospital resources…namely beds and nursing staff. Financial benefits are in the millions per year. Much of the credit for this hospital’s amazing performance and cultural transformation goes to the concept of direct patient to provider assignment. And Carepacity is transforming hospital performance with cloud-based SaaS and coaching services that do NOT require EHR integration.

Smart Assignment Energizes Teams

Smart assignment provides for fair workloads and increased patient and provider satisfaction. From a psychological perspective it aligns patient care incentives and energizes emergency team members to get their jobs done more efficiently. Most provider users love it and say that they wouldn’t work anywhere else without this kind of system.

Proven Results

A recent study revealed a $30 million in 3 years positive benefit for just one site location. In fact we calculated cost of not implementing Smart Assignment  is $16,000 to $30,000 per day! Our solution is proven. We are serving over 1 million patient visits per year. There is no disruption to your hospital facility, little if any risk and no capital equipment to buy or depreciate! Maybe it’s time to Think Outside the Bed?