{"id":5437,"date":"2019-01-15T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a6f61c8390.nxcli.io\/resources\/creating-capacity-patient-flow-to-meet-demand-at-uab-medicine\/"},"modified":"2019-01-15T19:18:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T19:18:00","slug":"creating-capacity-patient-flow-to-meet-demand-at-uab-medicine","status":"publish","type":"resources","link":"https:\/\/a6f61c8390.nxcli.io\/en-gb\/resources\/creating-capacity-patient-flow-to-meet-demand-at-uab-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating Capacity: Patient Flow to Meet Demand at UAB Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>UAB Medicine is a 1,157-bed academic medical center that is the only American College of Surgeons [ACS]-designated Level 1 Trauma and Burn Center in Alabama. It manages 50,000 annual admissions, 57 OR Suites with 130 surgeries a day and 300 ED visits a day. In addition, UAB serves as a safety net hospital for the community, as 35% of the patients who come through the door are uninsured.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/eadn-wc04-11971913.nxedge.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/uab-client-success-winter-2017-pfq-1-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eadn-wc04-11971913.nxedge.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/uab-client-success-winter-2017-pfq-1-1024x341.png 1024w, https:\/\/eadn-wc04-11971913.nxedge.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/uab-client-success-winter-2017-pfq-1-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/eadn-wc04-11971913.nxedge.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/uab-client-success-winter-2017-pfq-1-768x256.png 768w, https:\/\/eadn-wc04-11971913.nxedge.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/uab-client-success-winter-2017-pfq-1.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">High patient volume was leading to significant challenges for the facility and the staff. For example, the hospital was on diversion 60% of the time, the average wait time for an inpatient bed was up to 210 minutes, only 15% of all discharge orders occurred before 12PM, and more than 30% of the transfer requests were denied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<em>We needed to do something to address our capacity challenges\u2014we were closing our doors 60% of the time to patients in the state of Alabama. Our chief nursing officer [CNO] led the charge to develop a strategic patient flow plan and build a centralized patient placement center that would support the need to keep our doors open to the state of Alabama,<\/em>\u201d says Brittany Lindsey, Director of Patient Flow at UAB Medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWith that charge, we assembled a team and developed a framework for a center dedicated to improving patient flow. We determined that staffing needed to include a patient flow supervisor responsible for oversight of the daily operations, a patient placement coordinator and specialist, a nursing resource coordinator to act as an administrator, a stat nurse to handle all clinical needs and a Lean analyst to provide data analysis and project management to round out the team.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">AS THE PLAN UNFOLDED, THREE CORE BEST PRACTICES WERE IDENTIFIED THAT WOULD DRIVE EVERYTHING.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[226,229],"tags":[223,221],"mediatype":[252],"keyword":[281,285,284,283,280,282],"class_list":["post-5437","resources","type-resources","status-publish","hentry","category-client-success-en-gb","category-hospital-command-center-en-gb","tag-administration-en-gb","tag-operations-en-gb","mediatype-clientsuccess","keyword-alabama-en-gb","keyword-case-study-en-gb","keyword-client-success-en-gb","keyword-pfq-en-gb","keyword-uab-en-gb","keyword-uab-medicine-en-gb"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Creating Capacity: Patient Flow to Meet Demand at UAB Medicine - Teletracking<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Creating Capacity: Patient Flow to Meet Demand at UAB Medicine - Teletracking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"UAB Medicine is a 1,157-bed academic medical center that is the only American College of Surgeons [ACS]-designated Level 1 Trauma and Burn Center in Alabama. 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