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When Beds Don't Move
Hospitals talk about capacity constantly. Dashboards measure it. Meetings debate it. Yet the crisis most hospitals face every day is not a shortage of beds.
It is a shortage of movement.
What's inside this excerpt
- How a single misdelivered linen cart cascades into an ED backup by mid-morning
- The exact minute-by-minute sequence that repeats in hospitals every day
- Why the system fails, not the people
- The Engine Interaction Map™ connecting Linen, EVS, Transport, and Placement to the ED, PACU, and inpatient units
- Where the full book goes next, from the Five Laws to the Seven Engines
Donald Sipp Jr.
Author of When Beds Don't Move · Founder and President, Impact Training Company · Senior Director, Ruck-Shockey Associates
About
Donald Sipp Jr. came to patient flow not through a boardroom but through the loading docks, linen chutes, and transport queues where a hospital's day is actually won or lost. He has led teams since 1996 and worked in healthcare support services since 2004. As founder and president of Impact Training Company and a senior director at Ruck-Shockey Associates, he built the credential pathway for the healthcare transport profession in partnership with NAHTM, now certifying more than a thousand professionals across seventy-plus organizations. He developed the Flow Physics methodology, the conviction that a hospital's movement problems have causes you can find, name, and fix. When Beds Don't Move is that argument in full.
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