You have empty beds your emergency department can't see
When a patient is discharged, the bed should be back in use quickly. Instead it sits unusable for hours. Cleaning hasn't been requested, no one is sure of its status, and staff can't see which beds are genuinely free. Columna Flow Search & Find shows where every bed is and what state it's in, and raises the cleaning task automatically as soon as a bed is flagged for it, so beds return to use faster and fewer patients wait in your emergency department.
From waiting on word-of-mouth to seeing every bed
A discharge rarely turns into a ready bed on its own. Wards phone housekeeping to request a clean, then phone again to chase it. Porters walk the floors looking for a free bed that may already be taken. Admissions hold patients in the emergency department because no one can confirm which beds are ready. The delay is invisible on paper, but it shows up as crowded EDs, cancelled admissions, and staff spending the shift coordinating beds by phone.
See where each bed is and what it needs
Beds move through a handful of familiar states: clean, needs cleaning, in cleaning, and needs maintenance. Search & Find tracks each bed's movements and these status changes as they happen in the systems it connects to, so your teams can see where a bed is now and which ones are held up waiting for cleaning or maintenance.
Works with your existing clinical and logistics systems
Search & Find connects to the clinical and logistics systems your hospital already runs, so bed location and status sit alongside the tools your teams use every day. Updates flow between systems, so wards, housekeeping and admissions work from the same live picture, with no duplicate data entry and no separate bed-tracking tool to maintain.
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