Your ED has a triage nurse. Your improvement system doesn't.

Most improvement efforts treat every department as equally critical. They're not. This simulation shows you why in under five minutes.

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Level 1: The Revelation

You have 10 improvement points to invest. Allocate them across the five stations, then see how system throughput changes. Where you invest matters more than how much.

Improvement Points: 10
Patients per Day: 0

Level 2: The Floating Bottleneck

The capacities are hidden. Invest points and observe throughput to find the constraint.

Improvement Points: 8
Patients per Day: 0

Level 3: Branching Paths

Patients take different routes through your hospital. Surgical and medical patients share some stations but diverge in the middle. Where should you invest?

Improvement Points: 15
Surgical Patients/Day: 0
Medical Patients/Day: 0

Level 4: Shifting Constraint

Improve the constraint and watch what happens. The constraint will move as you invest. Track how many times it shifts.

Improvement Points: 15
Patients per Day: 0
Constraint Journey:

Level 5: When Reality Gets Messy

Real hospital systems don't have fixed arrival rates or predictable service times. Patients arrive in clusters. Some cases are complex, others routine. Staff availability fluctuates. Emergencies disrupt flow.

The previous levels showed you the principles. But applying them to your real system requires modeling your actual patient flows, capacity constraints, and variability patterns.

Level 5 is a dynamic simulation we build with you - modeling your specific situation, showing how queues build under realistic conditions, and testing improvement scenarios before you commit resources.

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We can model your actual patient flows, identify where your real constraints are, and test improvement scenarios before committing resources. No guessing. No wasted effort. Just clear, evidence-based decisions about where to focus.

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John Sambrook

Common Sense Systems, Inc.

Kirkland, WA

john@common-sense.com

(425) 501-9074