How will Psychbedfinder.com benefit patients?
Patients requiring inpatient care will spend much less time waiting in ED’s, on medical floors, or in clinicians’ offices as they await an inpatient bed. Patients may also be placed in facilities located closer to their homes. Patient satisfaction will increase as the wait time for accessing inpatient care is reduced and patients access services located closer to home. Top 8. How will Psychbedfinder.com benefit ED’s, Managed Care Organizations (MCO’s), the Department of Mental Health, and others seeking information about available in-patient psychiatric services? The high costs associated with finding available services, as well as monitoring patients during a search, will be reduced. The service will therefore help free up over-taxed ED staff to provide better patient care by reducing the time staff spend making multiple phone calls to one hospital after another seeking an available service capable of taking a given patient. Shorter wait times will improve patient flow, allow for more
