Becker's Healthcare March 20, 2020
If COVID-19 cases contracted during the pandemic are concentrated in a six-month period, U.S. hospitals would face a shortage of 1.3 million inpatient beds and nearly 300,000 intensive care unit beds, according to new analysis.
In a blog on Health Affairs, three researchers from the Harvard Global Health Institute in Cambridge, Mass., detailed results of an analysis assessing the capacity of U.S. hospitals to care for the expected surge in hospitalized patients as the virus spreads.
The researchers combined hospital infrastructure data from the 2018 American Hospital Association Annual Survey and the American Hospital Directory to estimate inpatient and ICU bed capacity in nonfederal acute care hospitals across the country. Using that data, they calculated average inpatient and ICU occupancy...
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