Home Health Care News March 16, 2020
Across the country, state and federal officials are trying to solve one crucial problem: how to increase hospital capacity as the number of acute COVID-19 cases increases.
Some — including New York Governor Andrew Cuomo — have recently called for the retrofitting of existing non-medical buildings. Others have suggested turning low-occupancy skilled nursing facilities into makeshift hospitals.
Nationally, there are slightly more than 924,000 hospital beds and about 98,000 intensive care beds, according to a 2018 American Hospital Association survey.