Location Guide

Reception / Check-In Desk

Use this page when you know the room name but want the practical answer fast: what this location is for, when it matters most, and what mistake usually happens here first.

If you only want the short answer, this is the first room that decides whether a fake patient ever gets the chance to damage the rest of the hospital. Good runs feel easy here because the admit is clean, not because the later rooms are faster.

Use this room first

Start here when the patient still needs a yes-or-no decision and no later room can fix a bad admit for free.

Go next to Office

Leave Desk for Office when the face read is still close enough that CCTV or a calmer re-check could change the decision.

Main fail state

This room is failing when suspicious admits keep reaching treatment rooms and the real cause is front-window hesitation.

Use Desk first when...

The patient still needs a yes-or-no decision, not one more random room visit.

Leave Desk when...

The patient is still close enough to need Office, photo, or CCTV instead of another stare at the window.

Desk is failing if...

Bad admits keep reaching rooms and the real cause is still front-window hesitation.

The patient looks almost normal

That means Desk has done part of the job, but Office, photo, or CCTV may still need to settle the admit before the room path begins.

You are admitting too many bad patients

That is usually not a speed problem. It is a first-call problem, where hesitation or mercy is beating your reject rules.

The whole run feels doomed before treatment starts

Desk is the first room to audit if the shift always feels worse than it should by the time patients reach the back rooms.

LOCATION VISUALReception Check In Desk

Room focus

Patient verification and early-run loss prevention

This room card is here to show what the location actually does for your run, not just what it looks like.

What this room is for

The front line for taking photos, printing badges, and rejecting suspicious patients.

Best room tip

Most preventable losses start here, so slow down enough to compare window, photo, and camera info.

What this room usually solves

This room decides whether the whole shift starts cleanly. The main desk problem is usually not raw speed. It is misreading photo, face, or camera logic during intake.

This is where most preventable bad runs start

If the desk read is rushed, the rest of the map has to clean up the mistake. Think of this room as the main filter before a fake patient becomes a bigger hospital problem.

Best for

  • Visual comparison
  • Photo workflow
  • Fast anomaly rejection before room pressure starts

Common risks

  • Rushing the intake decision
  • Skipping photo or CCTV cross-checks
  • Admitting borderline patients during queue pressure