An employee has selected an option on the Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system to indicate that they currently are cleaning the bed. Suspending an in progress bed cleaning or indicating that it is complete removes the In Progress status. The status becomes Suspended or Clean.

An employee has selected an option on the IVR to indicate that the bed cleaning has been delayed. A bed cleaning might be delayed when there is some non-emergency reason that the bed cannot be cleaned immediately (for example, the patient has been discharged but is still in the room). After a bed cleaning is delayed, the employee is eligible to be paged about another job. When the delay is released, another employee could be paged about the job that was delayed. When a bed cleaning is delayed, then on a bed list in the Capacity IQ® EVS console, the Bed Status column remains the same. However, the Delayed column (with a light-brown background) displays the number of minutes that the bed has been in a delayed state.

An employee has selected an option to indicate that a bed cleaning job has been suspended. Employees may suspend bed cleaning jobs if they need to stop cleaning before a job is completed to attend to more important work, such as higher-priority bed cleaning jobs. The next time that the employee who suspended the bed cleaning job calls the IVR or uses the mobile device, a message plays stating that there is a suspended bed waiting. The same employee can return to the job, change its status to In Progress, and then complete the job. If the employee who suspended the bed signs out before returning to complete the job, the supervisor can assign another employee to the job using the Notify New option on the IVR .

The patient has vacated the bed and it is ready to be cleaned. If brackets appear around the bed identifier on the Capacity IQ® EVS console, then there is a pending admission to the bed (Pending Admit), there is a patient in the bed although it has been marked Dirty, a patient has been selected to be transferred to the bed although it is in Dirty status, or a patient has been admitted to the bed although the bed has been blocked. In the Capacity IQ® EVS application, an asterisk (*) indicates that a bed became dirty as the result of a transfer. If the Master Configuration setting called Dirty the Patient Home Location on Occupying a Specialty Bed for Patients with Pending Transfer Status is enabled, then the home location of a patient in Pending Transfer status will be marked Dirty when that patient begins to occupy a specialty bed.

A requester has changed the status priority of a dirty bed to Stat, meaning that is should be cleaned right away, even if the employee is currently cleaning another bed.

A requester has changed the status priority of a dirty bed to Clean Next, meaning it should be cleaned right after the employee has finished the current bed cleaning job.

A requester has changed the status priority of a dirty bed to UDEF-8 or UDEF-9. UDEF-8 and UDEF-9 are user-defined statuses. The administrator defines the names of these statuses in the Admin Tool or Admin > Settings > Capacity Management component. For example, the administrator might have defined UDEF-8 as "Contagious" to indicate that an employee might have to take precautions before cleaning the bed.

Beds can be placed in Blocked status when there is a reason that patients should not occupy them for a given period of time (for example, maintenance work is occurring in the room). You may only block beds that have been marked as EVS beds. When it is appropriate for the bed to be assigned again, you may unblock the bed or location. When a user attempts to assign a blocked bed to a patient, a message appears indicating that the bed is in Blocked status. However, the user can still assign the bed.

Bed has been cleaned and could be available for a new patient.

A patient is associated with the bed at the current time. The patient could be away from the bed at the moment, but the bed is still considered occupied , not available for another patient, and not eligible for a bed cleaning job. (Spill cleaning jobs can be completed for occupied beds.) Completing a transport job to a bed can result in the bed becoming occupied by the patient who was transported.