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Room Turnover Coordination
Every hour a bed sits dirty after a patient discharge is an hour a new patient can't be placed. Housekeeping doesn't always know when a room is ready to clean, charge nurses don't know when cleaning is done, and the gap between "patient out" and "bed available" is longer than it needs to be.
A patient is discharged at 10am. The room isn't marked clean until 12:30pm — 2.5 hours later. Three patients have been waiting in the ED since 11am. No one notified housekeeping until 10:45. The housekeeper finished at noon but didn't have a way to signal the room was ready. The charge nurse assumed it wasn't done and kept the ED waiting.
Bed turnover requires a communication chain between clinical staff, housekeeping, and bed management — and that chain currently relies on manual calls, walkie-talkies, and tribal knowledge.
What's Actually Breaking
- Housekeeping notification is manual — someone has to remember to call or text when a patient leaves.
- Completion has no signal — when housekeeping finishes, there's no automatic way to notify bed management.
- Status is invisible — charge nurses can't see whether a room is pending, in progress, or ready without physically checking.
How Pathways Handles It
Automatic notification, real-time status, and zero manual steps between patient exit and bed available.
Every workflow is configurable to your protocols, team structure, and EHR environment — no custom development required.
What changes when bed turnover runs on a workflow instead of a walkie-talkie.
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