Author(s)

Ronald Lagoe^1*, Mark Murphy², Shelly Littau¹

¹Hospital Executive Council, Syracuse, NY, USA.
²St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center, Syracuse, NY, USA.

This study was a brief review of issues related to health planning in the metropolitan area of Syracuse, New York. It suggested that population demographics and health care utilization can have an impact on the use of services at the community level. The study suggested that the utilization of services can be associated with patient demographics. In this study, younger populations were associated with lower use of hospital inpatient care. The data have also suggested that larger numbers of younger populations are not necessarily related to opportunities for expanding local health care providers. Younger populations can be associated with lower per capita use of services. The data demonstrated that there were substantial reductions in hospital discharges for adult medicine. Total discharges declined by 3999 patients between the seven months in 2019 and 2023. The data also demonstrated that there were notable reductions in hospital discharges for adult surgery.

Hospitals, Acute Care, Ambulatory Care, Health Planning

Lagoe, R. , Murphy, M. and Littau, S. (2023) Evaluating Health Planning Issues at the Community Level. Case Reports in Clinical Medicine, 12, 433-438. doi: 10.4236/crcm.2023.1211058.