Maximize each patient opportunity

Industry reports estimate that most hospitals can increase their effective bed capacity from 5 to 20 percent by redesigning their processes, centralizing patient placement, and introducing technologies to help staff track the status of patients.

In today’s challenging financial climate, it is absolutely critical that every hospital and system maximize each patient opportunity that comes within its environments. Additionally, as organizations strive to improve quality measures, reduce expenses, and achieve ACO or other important status milestones, an active, integrated approach must be taken.

That’s where patient flow business solutions make sense. Consider the following example:

As one of South Florida’s most respected non-profit healthcare organizations, Baptist Health had grown significantly in recent years. However, Baptist Health did not have a formal system or set of guidelines in place to efficiently manage patient transfers. As a result, the lack of coordination adversely impacted several different levels of the organization: operations, finance, patient care, and administration.

After a complete demonstration—and hearing positive testimonials about its ROI—Baptist Health ultimately chose Central Logic to power its new patient transfer center.

In its first year, the center processed more than 20,000 patient transfers, an average of 1,667 per month, and the numbers continue to climb. In just the first 18 months online, the Baptist Health patient transfer center has already seen dramatic improvements in many areas, which are easily tracked, forecasted, and summarized by Central Logic’s reporting capabilities.