Hospitals already overflowing this winter amid what experts have deemed a “quademic” could face even more occupancy issues and — deadly consequences — within the next decade. The nation is on track ...

Changes in the hospitalization rate or staffed hospital bed supply are needed to avoid reaching concerning thresholds, a new study finds. Hospital occupancy rates may be trending in a dangerous ...

A new study published in the JAMA Network warns of a looming hospital bed shortage in the United States — one that could lead to significant increases in excess deaths if current trends persist.

And that point is 92.5 percent occupancy, according to a team of researchers at University of Cologne in Germany. They studied more than 82,000 patients in German hospitals. Among the 17 percent of ...

Post the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. hospital occupancy rate climbed 11% compared to pre-pandemic levels largely because of a national reduction in staffed beds, a new UCLA study has found. From 2009 ...

With the aging population, total annual hospitalizations were projected to increase from 36,174,000 in 2025 to 40,177,000 in 2035 without changes in the hospitalization rate or staffed hospital bed ...

Typical bed in a hospital. — Image by Peachyeung316 — CC BY-SA 4.0 Typical bed in a hospital. — Image by Peachyeung316 — CC BY-SA 4.0 The study by personal injury attorneys, Foster Wallace, submitted ...

Hospital occupancies have been elevated for several years, rising from an average of 63.9% between 2009 and 2019 to 75.3% between May 2023 and April 2024. If the average hospital occupancy rates hit ...

In the decade before the COVID-19 pandemic, the national occupancy average was about 64%. Post-pandemic, the average is 75%, which the report characterized as "dangerously close to a bed shortage." At ...

FRIDAY, Feb. 21, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Postpandemic hospital occupancy is higher than prepandemic and is expected to continue increasing without changes in the hospitalization rate or staffed ...