Smoother discharges, shorter stays

Your Challenge

When inpatient beds don’t turn, your emergency department backs up, operating room schedules fall behind, and teams burn out. Patients deserve timely, dignified care—and your hospital needs predictable flow and improved throughput.

Your guide

Sound partners with your leaders and residency program to make barriers visible, align teams, and protect capacity, without ever compromising patient care.

The plan

1. See barriers early. Brief daily, discharge-lens huddles surface obstacles and assign owners the same day.
2. Standardize handoffs. A shared discharge workflow across hospitalists, nursing, case management, and pharmacy builds consistency. 
3. Train to what matters. A short resident series ties social drivers and core metrics (length of stay observed-to-expected ratio [O/E], readmissions O/E, discharge timing) to everyday decisions. 

The story and result†

• Planned discharge from day one 

• Improved throughput, discharge predictability, and bed availability  

• Experienced fewer bottlenecks 

• Embraced steadier staffing days  

• Made more room for the right patients at the right time 

†Site-reported operational data validated by Sound Business Intelligence & Analytics (BIA). Extracted from Sound Metrix and HM Hospital Tabular for January 2023–April 2024. Results reflect this partner program during the stated period and may vary by hospital.