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One of the tasks of hospital admission administrators is assigning patients to rooms that are suitably equipped and staffed for treating the patients' clinical condition, taking into account policies imposed by the hospital organisation. Given that the number of (especially elderly) patients is growing, it is becoming increasingly difficult for administrators to handle this task manually in an efficient manner. In this study, we will apply a heuristic exclusion procedure based on these elements for improving the overall quality of the heuristic set. We divide the search into phases of a certain number of iterations. During each phase we measure the performance of all heuristics. The performance metric used is based on the relative improvement per execution time of each heuristic.