Question

Community Hospital has 200 beds and 25 newborn bassinets. The total inpatient service days for May was 5,297 for adults and children and 486 for newborns.

a. What is the average daily inpatient census for adults and children? Round to a whole number.
b. Determine the average daily newborn census. Round to a whole number.

Answer 1

The daily inpatient census for adults and children in the month of May is 193 patients. The total census for only babies is 16.

Step-by-step explanation:

I found this by, for the first part of the question, adding together the total adult patients for the month, and the total infant patients for the month, and then dividing them by the 31 days of May to calculate how many patients were in the hospital per day. For the babies, I did the same thing, except I didn't add the adults and the babies together, just divided the total babies by 31 to get the average daily amount.