Since the Delta variant became dominant earlier this summer, the number of available ICU beds in Texas, the second most populous state in the nation, has dipped below 325 with 12 of the state’s 22 hospital regions having 10 or fewer available ICU beds. The hospital bed capacity for patients with COVID-19 and those with any number of other conditions requiring hospitalization, including traumatic injury, heart attack, stroke, appendicitis, and sepsis, has never been more limited. One Houston-area ER doctor resorted to using Google to identify hospitals potentially able to accept his facility’s transfer patients and then called them – one by one by one by one. He reportedly contacted as many as 60 hospitals in his desperate search for a bed.
For hospitals using XFERALL to automate and expedite their patient transfers, the picture is not as bleak. In Texas alone, the hospitals using XFERALL to transfer medical patients between August 2020 and July 2021 got a response from a receiving hospital to their transfer request in less than 1 minute, 18 seconds and secured acceptance for patient transfer in less than 20 minutes.
XFERALL doesn’t create more beds or more nurses or more care capacity. We maximize the capacity that does exist.
With our mobile app, clinicians needing to transfer a patient, whether because their facility has no available beds or because their facility cannot provide the needed level or type of care, can cast a wide net to identify hospitals that do have bed and clinical capacity and can make a single request for patient transfer to multiple hospitals. Receiving hospitals with available clinically appropriate capacity respond on the app, and the entire patient transfer process is automated. There is no need for phone calls or faxes or clinician downtime.
The results:
Seriously ill or injured patients get the care they need more quickly.
ED overcrowding is relieved.
Clinician time is protected for patient care, not burdensome administrative tasks.
Contact us today to get XFERALL deployed in your hospital quickly and without complicated EHR integrations or hardware installations. Working together, we can all do our part to manage the COVID-19 surge that is devastating hospitals and delaying essential care and treatment for patients.