Case Study: Clinical Decision Unit Delivers Impressive Return on Investment Challenge Winter Haven Hospital is a 529-bed facility in Florida’s BayCare Health System. When the hospital began experiencing patient throughput challenges it called on its emergency medicine partner, TeamHealth, to develop solutions. The hospital’s 51-bed emergency department (ED) was holding 20 or more patients every day while waiting for beds to open on the hospital floor, negatively affecting patient flow and the timeliness of care delivered in the ED. The only options seemed to be building a new patient tower to increase physical bed capacity or finding a way to create functional capacity by improving inpatient throughput and bed availability. Solution Working collaboratively, TeamHealth and Wint

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