When 85 percent of hospital beds are occupied, two emergency medicine and health-care outcomes experts write in an ...
There is a shortage of beds in hospitals across the United States. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with doctor Arjun Venkatesh of ...
The nation is on track for a critical hospital bed shortage by 2032, researchers said Wednesday. The shortage is largely driven by a reduction of staffed hospital beds, potentially preventing life ...
"For general hospital beds that are not ICU-level, many consider a bed shortage to occur at an 85 percent national hospital occupancy, marked by unacceptably long waiting times in emergency ...
"[There's] this phenomenon of dormant hospital beds, so beds that are actually there, but we just can't open them to patients because we don't have the staff, like physicians and in particular ...
UCLA researchers predict a severe nationwide hospital bed shortage in the next seven years. At the same time, we'll have more people over the age of 65 than people under 18. That may also drive ...
The number of staffed hospital beds decreased after the COVID-19 public health emergency. The average national hospital occupancy could reach 85% by 2032 for adult hospital beds. Researchers ...
dividing the average daily number of patients by the number of staffed hospital beds. That’s 11 percentage points higher than before the pandemic, when average hospital occupancy was around 64% ...
PROVIDENCE — Across the country, hospital occupancy — the percentage of beds with patients at a facility — is up, even as the number of health care staff caring for patients declines.