Healthcare is one of the most complex operating systems in the world. Even when occupancy looks steady, the ground is constantly shifting. With a national average length of stay of about 4.7 days 1, a ...

In today’s high-tech medical world, electric and smart hospital beds often take the spotlight. Yet, many healthcare ...

Home healthcare is evolving significantly because of tele?he?alth adva?nced medical equipment and empowering patients in managing their own care. One noticeable improvement is the adoption of ...

Smart hospital beds provide greater benefits beyond the place to rest for patients. These beds are equipped with a myriad of sensors and monitors that enable real-time monitoring of a patient’s vital ...

Hospitals are getting more crowded and healthcare experts are warning that has serious consequences for the quality of patient care. A new study published in JAMA Network projects that by 2032, ...

HUDSON, NY (WNYT) – Albany Med Health System, which oversees Columbia Memorial Hospital, said they want to change the designation of the hospital. The hospital is currently a rural referral hospital, ...

Montefiore Health System is planning to break down dozens of hospital beds to make space for critical care capacity, sparking backlash from nurses who say the changes could exacerbate overcrowding in ...

Every day, across the nation, patients wait hours or days in emergency departments until a bed opens up for them in the hospital.

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 ...

Ron McDaniel had been trying to find a place for the hospital bed both his dad, Robert, and brother, Gary, had used in the assisted living facility where they were before they died. His father was a ...

The United States may face a shortage of hospital beds by 2032, a recent analysis in JAMA Network Open warns. The study found that hospital admissions have remained 11 percentage points higher since ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The number of staffed hospital beds decreased after the COVID-19 public health emergency. The average national ...