Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for administering a patient in a hospital. Embodiments include identifying, by a room optimizer module, upon the patient checking into the hospital, a set of patient attributes, each patient attribute describing an aspect of the health of the patient; selecting, by the room optimizer module, an optimized room for the patient in dependence upon the patient attributes and a set of room attributes of a plurality of rooms available, and indicating, by the room optimizer module, the selection of the optimized room to a hospital administrator.