symtym, What's in your Augean Stable?

What’s in your Augean Stable?

Waiting doom, good business move, or “agitprop” are begging the question whose stable is fuller? Reality checks:

EDs are ~~overcrowded~~ used to board inpatients.
Hospitals must be fiscally responsible, run like businesses.
Hospital either have no physical inpatient beds or have no staffed inpatient beds.
Where inpatient beds are not staffed, boarding in the ER is a more favorable economic decision.
Where there are no physical beds, because beds are “being held” for elective admissions or transfers, boarding in the ER is a more favorable economic decision.
Where inpatients are boarded in the ER, because inpatient areas will exceed nursing-ratios, boarding in the ER is a more favorable economic decision.