The hospital bed status wasn't synced today; how can the front desk avoid sending patients to the wrong unit?

Today, during an outpatient-to-inpatient transfer, the bed board showed a bed was available, but the nurse's station said it hadn't been cleaned yet. My front desk colleague almost sent the patient over based on the system. I first checked the ADT interface update time, housekeeping status, and nurse unit notes, and discovered that the bed clean status was delayed by a few minutes after the…