Science Daily7d
U.S. facing critical hospital bed shortage by 2032
largely due to a reduction in staffed hospital beds. This puts the U.S. on track for a severe shortage of hospital beds by 2032 unless action is taken. U.S. hospital occupancy after the end of the ...
Healio6d
US health care staffing shortages could lead to national hospital bed shortage by 2032
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 ...
The Boston Globe5d
Mass. and R.I. hospital occupancy lead the nation, report says, putting them at highest risk of bed shortages
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.
The Independent6d
A critical hospital bed shortage could soon hit the US - and prevent life-saving care
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 ...
People5d
U.S. Hospital Capacity Could Reach 'Dangerous Threshold' Within Less Than 10 Years
An “aging population” and reduction in available beds could create a “hospital bed shortage,” researchers say Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously ...
Modern Healthcare5d
Hospital bed shortage to hit US by 2032: UCLA
"[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 ...
Yahoo News UK5d
Vital tests disrupted after thieves target copper wiring on Chesterfield hospital CT scanner
Patients getting vital scans and test results have been kept waiting after thieves targeted the CT scanner - cutting and stealing the copper wiring that powers the machine. The theft happened at ...
Derby Telegraph6d
Vital tests disrupted after thieves target copper wiring on Chesterfield hospital CT scanner
A Derbyshire police spokesman said: "We received a report of copper wiring being stolen from Walton Hospital in Chesterfield between 9pm and 9.30pm on Tuesday, February 18. Investigations into the ...
Daily Mail21d
Why do celebs pose in hospital beds with their surrogate babies? Stars have faced backlash for 'Handmaid's Tale-style' snaps with infants another woman has given birth to
One particular element that regularly causes an uproar is celebrities - both male and female - posing in hospital beds with their newborns, with one claiming it's 'airbrushing out the birthing ...
Sydney Morning Herald23d
Bernie waited months in hospital for a bed in aged care. It never came
His final stay in hospital lasted five months while Janice searched for a suitable bed in aged care. Bernie died waiting. Janice and Bernie Fitzpatrick on a fundraising ride on the Eyre Peninsula ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation22d
Tasmania's Launceston General Hospital could find permanent air-conditioning solution but beds would need to close, CEO says
The Launceston General Hospital (LGH) has been plagued with bed block issues for years and now the north's main treating hospital is facing another challenge — sweltering temperatures on wards ...
The Sun28d
Bed-bound elderly patients wait in over-crowded hospital corridor in shocking pic which lays bare NHS crisis
ELDERLY patients wait on a row of trolleys in a crowded corridor in a picture that lays bare the deep crisis facing NHS hospital A&Es. Around 15 were wheeled there because the department’s bed ...