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This article provides basic guidelines for location settings in Capacity IQ® and how they will affect patient flow and reports, including Census calculations.
Location Type and Holding Flag Values Defined
Admit | Non-Holding | Registration area from which a patient is transported or admitted
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Admit | Holding | Virtual location in an admitting area
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Home | Non-Holding | Permanent location on a patient unit Admits, transfers and transports to these locations will do the following:
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Home | Holding | Virtual holding location on a patient unit Admits, transfers and transports to these locations will do the following:
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Specialty | Non-Holding | Pre-procedure, procedure or Post-procedure location
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Specialty | Holding | Pre-procedure, procedure or Post-procedure area
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Exam/Treatment | Holding not supported | Transport location only that never shows on the BedBoard
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Discharge | Non-Holding | Lobby or other discharge location to which a patient is transported when discharged
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Discharge | Holding | Temporary location or area to which a patient is transferred or transported while waiting to be officially discharged
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If there is a chance that a patient may be transported to or from a location, make sure that the location is set as a "Transport Location" by assigning at least one transport zone to the location. Otherwise, a transport job requestor may select the closest available location as a destination, which could result in a change in a patient's home location.
Admits, Transfers and Transport Jobs to Holding Type Locations
When a patient is admitted or transferred to any Holding type location, Capacity IQ® will do the following:
Create a bed request for the patient
Set any previous home location for the patient to dirty status
EXCEPTIONS:
If a patient is in a home bed and is transferred to a Specialty Holding location
No bed request is created
Patient's home bed remains assigned to patient
If a patient is transferred to a Discharge Holding location
No bed request will be created
Patient's previous Home location will be set to dirty
Admits, Transfers and Transport Jobs to Non-Holding Type Locations
When a patient is admitted or transferred to any Non-Holding type location, Capacity IQ® will do the following:
No bed request will be generated for the patient
Set any previous home location for the patient to dirty status
EXCEPTIONS:
If a patient is in a home bed and is transferred to a Specialty Non-Holding location
No bed request is created
Patient's home bed remains assigned to patient
One of the most common ways that a patient may disappear from the BedBoard or appear in the wrong location is because of an incorrect destination was selected for a transport job request.
Other Important Location Settings Defined
EVS Service |
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Show on BedBoard |
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Allow Bed Stacking | Should almost always Disabled
Implications:
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Count in Census |
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Count as Permanent Bed |
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Location Settings and Census Calculations
The Capacity IQ® EVS application census counts occupied EVS locations (Counts Locations).
The Capacity IQ® PreAdmit application counts patients occupying locations (Counts Patients).
Capacity IQ® will count each patient only once. Patients with a Home location and a current Specialty location will only be counted in the patient's Home location unit.
When would BedTracking census count be different from PreAdmitTracking census count?
When a stacking location contains more than one patient.
When Count in Census is set to True for a non-EVS location.