How Many Hospital Beds?

How many hospital beds?

For many years, average bed occupancy level has been the primary measure that has guided hospital bed capacity decisions at both policy and managerial levels. Even now, the common wisdom that there is an excess of beds nationally has been based on a federal target of 85% occupancy that was developed about 25 years ago. This paper examines data from New York state and uses queueing analysis to e...

The younger chronic sick: how many beds?

The Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act (1970) is an expression of the increasing attention being paid to the needs of the handicapped in our society. The most severely physically handicapped represent only a small proportion of the total who are physically disabled (Harris, 1971) but their degree of dependency often makes it necessary to care for them in institutions, either in the form ...

Reducing Hospital Beds

The Safety of Hospital Beds

HOSPITALIZATION Section I. HOSPITAL BEDS

a. The theater evacuation policy affects the number of beds required to support the TO. A patient requiring 59 days of hospitalization also requires a bed and a medical staff for 59 days. He requires this whether the entire period is spent in the theater, or divided between 29 days in the theater and 30 days in CONUS. The most intensive and demanding medical requirements are experienced during ...