War-game a linen par cut by proving each cart lane has a named owner, a measured age-out, and a reverse path before draft pars start governing every unit cart.
Linen par cuts fail when "ready for census" means a status without a decision artifact, when teams dual-count a draft par as both aspirational and live, and when isolation linen families still pin to one thin EVS desk because the lane inventory is incomplete. The review needs one written inventory of cart lanes, one owner who can deny a risky shortcut, and a documented consequence when a failed par ages past the deadline.
| Cart lane | Owner | Age-out | Reverse path |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard unit cart | Named EVS charge | Measured hours | Documented hold |
| Isolation dual path | EVS ops | Measured hours | Documented restore |
| OR linen bridge | Perioperative lead | Measured hours | Documented re-route |
Fill the table from stored exports, not from memory. Empty cells are blockers, not notes for later.
Lock one par family before scale
State which linen classes the cut covers, the effective date, which par lanes change, how versions are stored, and what happens to carts already in flight. Name the units that feel it first and the safety promises that depend on coherent linen handling. If the memo mixes a linen par cut with a room-turn SLA and an isolation protocol cut, split them.
Write the decision you will make if the war game finds nothing new. Also write the reverse criteria: the missed lane, isolation gap, or census deadline that would force a linen par cut rollback within a stated window.
Linen break points
- An isolation linen class stays soft while the aggregate EVS dashboard stays green.
- Two teams claim the same lane ownership and neither can force a freeze at week end.
- A restore has already left a cart without a trusted par state.
- The primary linen export lags beyond the planned observation window.
- An operator skips a par gate because a unit cutoff is near.
For each break point, require detection time, unit impact, containment, and the authority to force a linen par cut rollback. Commands and export links belong in the runbook.
Hostile seats on the linen pars
Feed Pingpong the cut memo, the lane exhibits, and seating briefs for EVS, nursing, infection control, and perioperative. First pass steelmans the cut. Later passes attack from those seats. Final pass turns surviving objections into phased lane rules, mitigations, or a changed recommendation. Agreement across passes is not proof. Keep the objections that still have evidence gaps.
Pair with the EVS ops lead seat, a room-turn SLA, an outbreak terminal-clean stress test, and the infection control lead seat. More operating decisions live in the war-game decisions hub.
Ship the cut only when approved and blocked par labels can be reproduced from stored linen exports without a verbal override.