Best first stop
Desk, because the cheapest disaster is the one you reject before it ever enters the route.
Route Guide
This page is for the player who does not just want room names. You want the order that makes the hospital feel readable: where to start, where to confirm, where to recover, and which room is dangerous enough to save for last.
The important idea is simple. Desk filters mistakes, Office confirms and resets, Medical Rooms create pace, Supplies and Coffee stop the next mistake from growing, and Room 8 stays separate because it follows its own logic.
Desk, because the cheapest disaster is the one you reject before it ever enters the route.
Office, because CCTV and sanity recovery often fix the uncertainty that would otherwise poison the next room.
Room 8, because it should be approached with its own answer instead of folded into normal hallway instinct.
Start here because most preventable losses still begin with a bad admit or a rushed reject call.
Go here when the admit is uncertain, CCTV is needed, or sanity and re-check rhythm are starting to slip.
Once the patient is inside, this becomes the throughput section of the route where clean treatment flow matters most.
Use this stop before the shift snowballs, not after it is already collapsing. Timing matters more than shopping often.
Treat coffee like route maintenance, not a last-second rescue button after panic has already spread into the next rooms.
Approach this room on purpose. It is the special-case stop where normal combat instinct can lose an otherwise clean run.
Open this when you want the wider hospital layout around the route, not just the ideal order.
Open this if you want the room roster first and the route order second.
Open this if the route is fine on paper but still breaks because the first room keeps making bad admits.
Open this if the whole route question is really about one room that still feels dangerous every time.