Question

Prairie Hospital, with a bed complement of 250 beds, decides to close a section of the hospital and reduce the bed count to 200 beds. The administrative closure is implemented on July 17. During July, 5,710 inpatient service days of care were provided. Calculate: Percent of inpatient bed occupancy for July. (compute to two decimal places).

a) 94.00%
b) 91.00%
c) 82.40%
d) 75.20%

Answer 1

To calculate the percent of inpatient bed occupancy for July subtract the number of empty beds from the original bed complement and divide it by the total number of beds available. The rounded result is
`87.50%`.

Step-by-step explanation:

To calculate the percent of inpatient bed occupancy for July, we need to determine the number of occupied beds and divide it by the total number of beds available.

First, we need to find the number of occupied beds. To do this, we subtract the number of empty beds from the original bed complement. In this case, the original bed complement was
`250 beds` , and the new bed count is 200 beds after the closure of a section. Therefore, the number of occupied beds is
`250 - 200 = 50 beds` .

Next, we calculate the bed occupancy rate by dividing the number of occupied beds by the number of inpatient service days. The formula is:

Occupancy Rate = (Number of occupied beds / Number of inpatient service days) * 100.

Plugging in the values, we get:

`Occupancy Rate = (50 beds / 5,710 service days) * 100 = 0.875% * 100 = 87.5%.`

Rounded to two decimal places, the percent of inpatient bed occupancy for July is
`87.50%`.