It is not missing.
Nobody knows which floor.
A hospital rarely owns too few wheelchairs. It owns plenty and can find none of them. Equipment, beds and trolleys, located to a ward and a corridor instead of a phone call.
Everything here already has a name. Almost none of it says so.
Drag the handle. The right half is what anybody walking past sees. The left is the same corridor once each thing in it carries an identity and a last known position.
Fifty four items. One of them is on the wrong floor.
The block in section, with every tagged item where a reader last saw it. The count per floor is the boring part and the useful one. The single filled square is a wheelchair from ward 41 that has been parked by casualty for forty one minutes.
What stops being a phone call.
Which floor is the pump on?
A ward and a corridor, from the last reader that saw it. The search that used to take three phone calls and a walk down two floors takes a look at a screen.
How many wheelchairs do we actually have free?
A count that separates in use from parked from sitting somewhere it has no business being. Hospitals usually own more than they can find.
Where did that bed go?
Transfers between wards as they happen, so the ward that lent it can ask for it back with a location rather than a suspicion.
Is this machine due for service?
Hours in use and last service date travel with the asset itself, so the schedule follows the machine through every ward it passes.
What was on this floor last Thursday night?
The trail exists without anybody having written in a book, which matters most on the night nobody was writing.
Held against the thing, not the department.
An asset that moves between four wards in a week is still one asset. Its hours, its service date and its trail travel with it rather than restarting in each ward's own file.
Floor, ward and corridor, from the last reader that saw the tag.
In use, parked, in transit or off ward, counted separately.
Every move between wards, with the time it left and the time it arrived.
Hours in use and last service, held against the asset rather than a spreadsheet.
How long a thing has been where it should not be. The number that gets it walked back.
Any floor, any night, replayed later.
Runs on whatever is already fitted.
A tag on the frame of a wheelchair, a reader above a ward door, a handheld for the store, the ID cards already issued to staff. Most hospitals have some of this fitted and unread.
Start with one block.
Pick the floor that loses the most equipment. Tag what moves, read it at the doors, and see the count settle before deciding anything else.
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