While a facility renovation or expansion may seem like the best way to accommodate a growing patient population or to solve current challenges, this course of action is often expensive and, in many cases, avoidable.

The healthcare industry is complex, and questions without a single solution often arise. So when Inspira Health Network experienced significant emergency department (ED) holds due  to a lack of inpatient capacity, they engaged Array to analyze patient arrival and unit assignment data. The client believed that inadequate inpatient unit capacity was causing these holds. The results offered a different conclusion.