CriticalWard full, beds idle elsewhere · general_medicineopen since 12 Oct 2026, 11:15 am
W2 is full: 4 waiting for it (3 boarding elsewhere, 1 just triaged); 2 bed(s) held by stuck discharges; 7 general bed(s) free in W3 (3), W5 (2), W6 (2)
What to do
No action of its own. It clears when what causes it is fixed; see the chain below.
How it connects: 6 upstream, 4 downstream
Caused by
- CriticalA bed stays occupied: Bed W2-07 in W2 is held by a discharge, 185 min old, waiting on the CBC report from lab, discharge medication (pharmacy).
- CriticalA bed stays occupied: Bed W2-11 in W2 is held by a discharge, 170 min old, waiting on the chest X-ray report from lab, discharge summary (records).
- CriticalA discharge is stuck: Lakshmi Devi's discharge has waited 185 min in bed W2-07.
- CriticalA discharge is stuck: Mohammed Irfan's discharge has waited 170 min in bed W2-11.
- CriticalA report is late: CBC for Lakshmi Devi is 105 min late, 9th in the central lab queue, and holds a discharge and bed W2-07.
- CriticalA report is late: X-ray chest for Mohammed Irfan is 75 min late, 4th in the radiology queue, and holds a discharge and bed W2-11.
Which is why
- CriticalAdmitted patients are stuck in Emergency: 3 admitted patients are lying in Emergency beds waiting for W2.
- HighA patient is waiting for a bed: Ravi Kumar needs a general bed, waiting 8 min.
- CriticalWaits are longer than usual: Emergency has 15 waiting, mean 64 min against a usual 52 min for this hour.
- HighA complaint has already come in: A complaint about waiting, severity 4.
The records behind it (11)
| beds total | 12 | ||||||||||||||||
| beds available | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| beds occupied | 12 | ||||||||||||||||
| beds held by stuck discharges |
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| beds cleaning | none | ||||||||||||||||
| boarding elsewhere |
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| waiting for a bed |
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| free same type elsewhere |
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| own urgency | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| own impact | 8 | ||||||||||||||||
| downstream issue count | 4 |
How it was ranked
Urgency 5 of 5, impact 32 (people and beds it touches, downstream included), priority 160 (urgency times impact). Key bed_mismatch:W2.