Hospital Reduces Length Of Stay, Saves $480,000

As the only healthcare system to serve the Beaufort, S.C., area, Beaufort Memorial Hospital experiences a high volume of patients. Beaufort annually manages 50,000 ED visits and 200,000 outpatients and averages approximately 10,000 discharges each year. Because this large patient base continues to grow, the 197-bed, not-for- profit hospital realized it needed to plan for the future and better understand how patients flow through the hospital.

The first step for Beaufort, which has a reputation for being a forward-thinking organization in terms of leveraging and adopting industry-leading technology, was to search for a technology solution that would increase visibility into patient flow organization-wide. Beaufort leadership decided to implement MEDHOST PatientFlow HD, a patient throughput solution that provides mission-critical facility, clinical and patient-centric data the hospital needs to manage financial outliers and high-impact patients. PatientFlow HD increased transparency of patient flow processes, but the hospital soon recognized it had to change its culture and overall care coordination. Beaufort engaged the MEDHOST Professional Consulting team to conduct a thorough assessment and implement a plan it could sustain.

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