The bottleneck no one is watching — your elevators.
The bottleneck no one is watching — your elevators. When beds, patients, supply carts, and staff all share the same vertical path, small delays stack into big care delays. Separating freight traffic from patient transport, using sensor data to spot peak congestion windows, and designating service lifts during high-demand hours are low-cost moves with hospital-wide impact. Vertical flow is infrastructure — and it shapes clinical outcomes more than most teams realize. Are you optimizing up and down as much as left and right?