How health systems are rethinking patient flow across the hospital
Across hospitals, patient flow challenges are playing out daily — delayed discharges, constrained capacity and growing pressure on emergency departments.
These issues rarely start in one department. They reflect how effectively patients move across the entire system, from admission through discharge. When coordination breaks down, delays compound and access suffers. This whitepaper presents a structured, end-to-end approach to managing patient flow, supported by examples from health systems already putting that model into practice with predictive intelligence and generative AI.
Featured case studies from Baptist Health Arkansas, Springhill Medical Center and University Health (San Antonio) show how organizations are improving discharge processes, reducing boarding time and increasing admissions through better systemwide coordination.
Learnings include:
These issues rarely start in one department. They reflect how effectively patients move across the entire system, from admission through discharge. When coordination breaks down, delays compound and access suffers. This whitepaper presents a structured, end-to-end approach to managing patient flow, supported by examples from health systems already putting that model into practice with predictive intelligence and generative AI.
Featured case studies from Baptist Health Arkansas, Springhill Medical Center and University Health (San Antonio) show how organizations are improving discharge processes, reducing boarding time and increasing admissions through better systemwide coordination.
Learnings include:
- How leading systems coordinate decisions across the full patient journey
- What proactive capacity and admission planning looks like in practice
- How the featured organizations improved flow and throughput
- Why aligning staffing, discharge and care progression is critical
- What it takes to see measurable impact like a 5% increase in daily discharge and 12-hour reduction in LOS
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