Ward and bed management
Every bed has one state, and everyone sees the same one.
The bed board shows each ward with its beds as vacant, occupied, cleaning, reserved or blocked. Admissions take a vacant bed, transfers move the patient and free the old bed for housekeeping, and the night's bed charge is posted to each in-patient's bill without anyone keying it.
What changes on the floor
Wards and theatre. Included in: Hospitals, Hospital groups.
Admissions phones three wards to find a bed
The bed board shows vacant beds by ward and bed type, and only a vacant bed can take an admission.
A discharged bed sits empty because nobody told housekeeping
A discharge or transfer sends the bed to cleaning and raises a housekeeping task. Marking it clean returns it to vacant.
Bed charges are added by hand on the last day, and some nights are missed
The day close posts one bed charge per in-patient per night, priced by bed type and payer class.
Rules the software enforces
These are checks in the product, with the reason shown to the person at the screen.
- RefusedAdmitting to a bed that is not vacant
Occupied, cleaning and blocked beds cannot take a patient.
- CheckedOne charge per night, never two
The day close can be run again for the same date and posts nothing twice. The admission night is charged; the discharge day is not.
- RefusedA day close for a future date
A manager can run the close by hand for today or an earlier date, and the report states the date it ran for.
- RecordedEvery bed movement
Each change of state is logged with who made it, and transfers keep the full history of where the patient has been.
What is in it
Bed board
- Wards and beds by type: general, private, ICU, HDU
- States: vacant, occupied, cleaning, reserved, blocked
- Counts per ward at a glance
- Block a bed for maintenance with a reason
Admission to transfer
- Admit from the out-patient consult or the front desk
- Transfers between beds and wards with history
- Advance collected at admission
- Housekeeping tasks raised on every bed turnover
Charges
- Bed tariff by bed type and payer class
- Nightly day close at five past midnight, hospital time
- Manual day close for a manager, with the date echoed
- A missing tariff is reported, not guessed
Questions hospitals ask
Can the bed board be shown at the nursing station?+
Yes. The lobby display carries bed counts per ward with no patient details, and the full board is in the console for staff who are signed in.
What if our hospital charges the discharge day?+
The standard rule charges the admission night and not the discharge day. Tariffs and extra charges are set per bed type and payer class during setup.
See wards and beds on your own setup.
A demo is set up with your departments, bed types and tariffs, so you see your hospital and not a sample one.