on the right hand side of fig1 if the room does require cleaning at 52 the indication is made by pushing the u201c clean lights off u201d button once at 58 this turns on the purple and orange light bars as shown in fig1 and starts a room cleaning timer rcr also note in fig1 that the icon for cleaning the room is displayed on the light tower sconce after the room has been cleaned the u201c clean lights off u201d button is pressed a second time at 60 and the room cycle is complete with the room available and all lights off indication at 56 as again shown in fig1 the foregoing system provides a highly flexible visible monitoring system for managing and monitoring the status of an examination room or other room at any given time the nature of personnel in the room and whether a caregiver is present with a patient or not is readily ascertained by the status of the light bars on the outside of the room in addition the particular caregiver represented by the different color bars below the room number also is ascertained at the room itself as well as available at the monitoring station 26 by coupling the various timers and status indicators with a time of day clock the data concerning the usage and occupancy of the room throughout all of the different hours of a day may be monitored and stored in a data bank this information then subsequently can be retrieved and used for management purposes to determine the extent of usage and the manner of utilization of.