Hospital admission delays are usually operational, not clinical. Fragmented intake channels, manual assignment workflows, stale census data, and unclear ownership of requests create coordination gaps that slow admissions and contribute…
At 7:00 AM, the day team logs in. There’s already a list waiting, patients admitted overnight, a few pending from the ED, others flagged for discharge. The night team has left notes. Someone has…
Hospital medicine groups are frequently evaluated based on the total length of a patient’s hospital stay, even though portions of that stay occur before the patient reaches hospital medicine. This…
