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 

• See barriers early. Brief daily, discharge-lens huddles surface obstacles and assign owners the same day. 

• Standardize handoffs. A shared discharge workflow across hospitalists, nursing, case management, and pharmacy builds consistency. 

• 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.