The timing couldn’t have been better. In June 2019, ahead of the COVID-19 pandemic, Virginia Mason Franciscan Health unveiled its new Mission Control Command Center.
The solution aimed to use data to improve practices across the Washington state healthcare system, including patient transfers, bed turnaround time, staffing and utilization of equipment.
In early 2020, those efficiencies became even more important as COVID-19 patients overwhelmed hospitals across the U.S., stretching resources to their breaking point.
“I don’t know how we would have managed during the pandemic without the…
