Bed Management: Design

What potential design would you consider if the key theme emerging from your observations is that bed assignment time is high because patient placement staff is waiting for placement approval from nursing units?

What are the potential designs you would consider if the key themes emerging from your observations are that patient populations are scattered on multiple units without having designated primary and overflow units?

What are the potential designs you would consider if the key themes emerging from your observations are: 1) We get a lot of bed requests coming in at the same time from the ED, 2) receiving unit nurse makes multiple phone calls asking about when the patient is going to come up, 3) Lots of rework, especially when bed requests are incorrect when they are first entered