“For general hospital beds that are not ICU-level, many consider a bed shortage to occur at an 85% national hospital ...

The research predicted that 85% of all hospital adult patient beds will be occupied by 2032 and 85% of adult and pediatric ...

Duke, WakeMed, UNC and Novant all proposed creating new acute care beds and operating rooms in North Carolina’s most populous ...

A new report shows the mean bed occupancy at hospitals across the US went up even as the number health care workers staffing ...

The U.S., Uruguay, and Venezuela have the highest rates of gun-related suicides. The U.S. has almost double the number of gun ...

Explore the hospital bed shortage crisis in the U.S. as capacity challenges threaten healthcare access and patient safety.

Medical errors are the 3rd leading cause of death in the United States. Researchers say the quality of care in hospitals ...

Researchers project a hospital bed shortage in less than a decade due to health care staffing shortages across the U.S., ...

The new post-pandemic national hospital occupancy average is 75% -- a full 11 percentage points higher than the pre-pandemic average, largely due to a reduction in staffed hospital beds. This puts the ...

With the aging population, total annual hospitalizations were projected to increase from about 36 million in 2025 to about 40 million in 2035 without changes in the hospitalization rate or staffed ...