HealthLeaders Media March 19, 2020
New report shows some states and counties lag far behind in the availability of hospital beds.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– The report shows that bed availability per 1,000 people varies a great deal across urban and rural areas, states, and counties across the nation.
– The analysis estimates that the U.S. has 728,000 medical and surgical hospital beds available to the public, or 2.2 hospital beds per 1,000 population.
– However, only 36% of these beds were unoccupied on a typical day, leaving just 0.8 unoccupied beds per 1,000 people.
Nearly two-thirds of the nation’s estimated 728,000 hospital beds already are occupied, according to a new report from the Urban Institute that provides a county-level view of bed capacity.
The study...
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