Occupancy Management Program - Predictability Tool
Sydney South West Area Health Service
Abstract
Concord Hospital has developed and implemented a predicability tool as part of its occupancy management program. The Predictability Tool enables workload and resources to be identified to proactively manage bed capacity requirements in advance, based on projections of planned and unplanned admissions and expected patient discharges.
The Hospital has sustained its concerted efforts to reduce Access Block by creating data driven tools and an organisational culture to proactively manage and reliably predict Bed Occupancy throughout the Hospital. The Health Department's Dashboard system is used in conjunction with a locally developed data base (Predictive Tool). Meaningful graphical reports based on this data are made available to ED staff, hospital executive, NUM's and department heads.
This project was entered in the 2007 NSW Health Awards, Smart Choices about the Costs and Benefits of Health Services category.
The full entry document can be downloaded in the formats listed below:
Occupancy Management Program - Predictability Tool (Word - 86 KB)
Occupancy Management Program - Predictability Tool (pdf - 45 KB)
Download the Presentation ( pdf - 230 KB) from the 2007 NSW Health Expo.
Contact
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Executive Office
Sydney South West Area Health Service
Phone: 02 9515 9339
