TITLE:
Hospital Utilization after the Epidemic
AUTHORS:
Ronald Lagoe, Bella Lagoe, Shelly Littau
KEYWORDS:
Hospitals, Coronavirus, Inpatient Hospital Beds
JOURNAL NAME:
Case Reports in Clinical Medicine,
Vol.10 No.4,
April
14,
2021
ABSTRACT: This study focused on hospital utilization for adult medical-surgical patients in Syracuse, New York as the census peaked then declined between December 2020 and February 2021. The initial analysis demonstrated that the adult medical-surgical census including Coronavirus patients declined by 8.1 percent during January and February 2021. The study data also demonstrated that the adult medical-surgical census of the combined hospitals increased as the numbers of virus patients declined. The inpatient census at the end of February 2021 was 3.6 percent below the level for February 2019 and 15.0 percent below the level for February 2020. This suggested a range between 3.6 and 15.0 percent below those in previous years for medical-surgical planning after the epidemic.