Emergency departments nationwide are overwhelmed by boarding—not because there aren’t enough beds, but because of inefficient placement, delayed discharges, and fragmented workflows. Beth Parks, Clinical Outcomes Engineer at ABOUT Healthcare, notes that human bias, siloed decision making, and misaligned capacity slow throughput, exhaust staff, and put patients at risk. Hospitals using data-driven, standardized placement—with real-time dashboards, centralized admissions, and workflow automation—are reducing boarding, moving patients to the right care setting at the right time, and making better use of existing resources.

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