Hospital Surge Planning — Redefined
When mass casualty events strike, seconds matter and decisions are irreversible. BedForce gives incident commanders, bed managers, and disaster coordinators a real-time simulation platform to forecast, plan, and act before the surge hits.
When a mass casualty event hits, hospital incident commanders are making million-dollar capacity decisions with whiteboards and gut instinct. That's the gap BedForce fills.
Bed managers are calling units manually, aggregating data in Excel, and making critical routing decisions without a live system view. By the time the picture is clear, the surge has already hit.
Traditional surge planning is a pre-event exercise — not a live tool. When MCI scenarios change mid-event, commanders have no way to rapidly model "what if we divert 20 patients right now?"
Critical patients waiting in queue die. Without a tool that models queue mortality by acuity, commanders can't see the human cost of a delayed decision until it's already happened.
No integration required. No EHR vendor. No six-month onboarding. Configure your facility, run your simulation, make decisions.
Set your unit capacities, arrival volumes, acuity fractions, and supply levels. Rename units to match your facility.
Choose an MCI preset — Minor, Moderate, Major, or Catastrophic — or build a custom scenario with chalk air evac arrivals.
Run forward in time at variable speed. Watch census, supply, and queue mortality evolve in real time across all units.
When surge or diversion events trigger, a commander COA modal interrupts. Pick your response. Log your decision. Resume.
Every feature in BedForce was designed around one question: what does a commander need to know right now, and what can they actually do about it?
Military-calibrated Poisson arrival modeling with log-normal length-of-stay distributions. Acuity-based routing through full clinical pathways: ED → OR → PACU → ICU → Step-Down → Ward.
Queue Mortality ModeledSimulation pauses when thresholds breach. Commander selects a Course of Action: divert patients, convert beds, activate Walking Blood Bank, request emergency resupply. All decisions logged.
Permanent & Temporary ConversionsSeparate med and blood product pools with threshold-triggered restocking. Warehouse reorder points fire event annotations (Ordered D6H22). Walking Blood Bank and emergency resupply COAs available.
Blood Bank ModelingAircraft arrive as discrete chalk loads into Air Field Hold. Transfer rate out = 18 patients/hour. MSK, Burn, and Surgical routing paths. Configurable size, interval, and acuity fractions.
MASCAL ReadyFive preset dashboard layouts for Command, Operations, Planning, Staffing, and MCI/Disaster coordinators. Each role sees the data that matters most for their decisions. Customization coming in v2.
5 Roles SupportedAutomated report snapshots at Day 1, 3, 7, 14, and 30. Export as .txt or .json. Per-unit surge/diversion status, supply levels, queue mortality, and partner transfer counts captured at each milestone.
Download & ShareBedForce serves the entire hospital incident command structure — from the commander making diversion decisions to the planner running Monte Carlo scenarios.
Safe inbound capacity, next bottleneck forecast, COA decision queue
Queue depth, unit census, diversion status, bed conversion options
Scenario analysis, sensitivity modeling, outcome comparison across runs
Acuity distribution, nurse ratio projections, surge staffing forecasts
Chalk arrivals, MASCAL presets, ORC/partner routing, air evac planning
During a real mass casualty event, the commander doesn't have time to open a spreadsheet. They need a system that thinks three steps ahead and tells them exactly what will break next.
Designed by an Active-Duty Army CIO & Healthcare IT Leader · Military Medical Operations Background
All plans billed annually. Under the government micro-purchase threshold — purchase with a P-card, no contracting officer required.
Evaluate the platform. No commitment, no credit card.
For a single facility command team. Everything you need, nothing you don't.
For multi-facility commands, state EMS, and FEMA regions.
✓ Both paid plans are under the $5,000 government micro-purchase threshold — purchasable by P-card without a contracting officer
Stop planning with whiteboards. Start commanding with data. BedForce is ready when you are.
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