The number of pediatric beds decreasing has been an issue for at least a decade, said Dr. Daniel Rauch, chair of the Committee on Hospital Care for the American Academy of Pediatrics. By 2018 ...

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% ...

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 ...