Room Placement Distribution Time

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Matt asked Nov 14, '23 Jason Lightfoot commented Nov 20, '23

Room Placement Distribution Time

While we were analyzing the distributions for the patient flow, we noticed that room placement is not listed on the Flow Diagram, but is included in the distribution table. We were curious where the room placement time is factored in. If there is a bed available, does the patient still have to wait the given time distribution to be placed in a room? For example, we noticed pulmonary and cardiology have distributions with placement times up to 25 minutes, so do patients always have to wait this time to be placed in a room, regardless of availability of the room? Thanks, and please let me know if you need any further details of my problem.

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented · Nov 20, 2023 at 02:36 PM

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Answer 1 · 2023-11-15T18:56:51Z

Brittany Evans answered Nov 15, '23

The Room Placement distribution in the table is not the time that a patient waits for a room. That is handled based on availability of the rooms. The Room Placement time is actually the time for the Nurse Assessment. It probably should be better labeled in the table. You can think of it as the time the nurse spends with the patient after they have been placed in a room gathering information or running initial tests.

Answer 2 · 2023-11-15T12:57:48Z

Regan Blackett answered Nov 15, '23

Typically, any time spent waiting for a Location or any other resource would be based on how long a patient waits to successfully finish an 'Acquire' activity in the patient flow. If a resource is acquirable there should be no waiting time unless there is a Process activity that forces a delay.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'distribution table' in this context. Could you share your model, or describe more how your model is put together?

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