Hospital Management System

Overview

A console-based C++ application for managing patient flow in a small hospital environment.
This system provides an efficient way to manage patient admissions, transfers, and discharges across multiple wards using linked list data structures.

Features

1. Patient Admission

• Automatically assigns patients to available beds
• Creates new wards when all existing wards are at full capacity
• Tracks patient name and medical condition

2. Patient Discharge

• Removes patients from the system
• Automatically shifts remaining patients to maintain no empty beds between occupied ones
• Validates bed index before discharge

3. Patient Transfer

• Moves patients between beds
• Handles the reorganization of patients to maintain the no-empty-beds requirement
• Validates source and target beds before transfer

4. System Display

• Shows the current status of all wards
• Lists patients in each ward with their bed assignments

5. Patient Information Retrieval

• Provides patient name and condition based on bed index

Usage Instructions

• Initializing the System hospitalManagementSystem hospital;

• Admitting a Patient hospital.admitPatient("Patient Name", "Medical Condition");

• Discharging a Patient hospital.dischargePatient(bedIndex); // bedIndex is the global index of the bed

• Transferring a Patient hospital.transferPatient(sourceBedIndex, targetBedIndex);

• Displaying System Status hospital.displaySystem();

• Getting Patient Information std::string info = hospital.getPatientInfo(bedIndex);

Implementation Details

• Uses linked lists to manage beds and wards
• Each bed has an occupancy status (occupied/vacant)
• Global indexing system for beds across all wards
• Automatic patient shifting to maintain continuous occupancy

Error Handling

The system validates operations and provides appropriate error messages for:

• Attempting to discharge patients from empty or non-existent beds
• Attempting to transfer patients to occupied beds
• Attempting to transfer from empty or non-existent beds