Industries & use cases
The same problem, in seven different operating environments.
Occupancy and capacity information sits in individual buildings. It has to become timely, structured and operationally useful across facilities, provider organizations and authorized oversight entities — without a facility retyping the same numbers into three places.
Pick the environment closest to yours. Each use case explains who it is for, the operational problem, how OCRS fits the workflow, what implementation requires, and where to go next. Buyer level — facility, provider organization, county or state — is shown separately from sector.
Find your environment
Behavioral health & substance use treatment
Census is collected by phone, spreadsheet or shift note, so nobody outside the building knows today's real availability.
Relevant outcome: One daily census per facility, validated before it leaves the building.
Best suited for: Individual facilities • Multi-facility provider organizations • State / jurisdiction programs
Residential treatment homes
A licensed home has to know, and be able to show, exactly which beds are usable today — including the ones taken offline.
Relevant outcome: Licensed capacity, usable beds and blocked beds reconciled every day.
Best suited for: Individual facilities • Multi-facility provider organizations • State / jurisdiction programs
Community residential settings
Adult foster homes and small community programs have no reporting staff, so every extra form competes with resident care.
Relevant outcome: A census a single caregiver can submit from a phone in under a minute.
Best suited for: Individual facilities • Multi-facility provider organizations • County / regional authorities
Skilled nursing, hospice & senior living
Occupancy is tracked separately in every building, so leadership has no single current view across the portfolio.
Relevant outcome: One occupancy picture across buildings — operational, not regulatory.
Best suited for: Individual facilities • Multi-facility provider organizations
County & regional authorities
County staff phone facilities for availability and still cannot say which homes reported today.
Relevant outcome: Read-only capacity and reporting completeness across participating facilities.
Best suited for: County / regional authorities • State / jurisdiction programs
State & jurisdiction programs
Statewide capacity is assembled from inconsistent facility submissions that arrive late and cannot be audited.
Relevant outcome: One specification, validated submissions, and an auditable reporting history.
Best suited for: State / jurisdiction programs • County / regional authorities
Health systems & networks
Discharge and placement staff need to know which residential beds are genuinely open today.
Relevant outcome: Current reported capacity from participating facilities — no interface required.
Best suited for: State / jurisdiction programs • County / regional authorities • Multi-facility provider organizations
Buyer level, not sector
OCRS is deployed at four levels. A sector use case tells you what OCRS does for your kind of programme; the buyer level tells you what you are actually buying.
- Individual facilities
- One licensed building reports its own census.
- Multi-facility provider organizations
- An organization oversees its facilities; aggregation never replaces a facility's submission.
- County / regional authorities
- A regional authority reviews what participating facilities reported.
- State / jurisdiction programs
- A jurisdiction defines the reporting specification and receives validated records.
OCRS is an occupancy and capacity reporting system. It holds no clinical record, care plan or billing information, and it is not an electronic health record.