The rise of the ‘bedless hospital’

Treatments are getting less invasive and recovery times are shrinking


As treatments get less invasive and recovery times shrink, the “bedless hospital” is emerging, according to an article on the Stat website.

They have all the capabilities of traditional hospitals: operating rooms, infusion suites, and even emergency rooms and helipads — everything but overnight beds.

A $48 million bedless hospital recently opened near Cleveland, Ohio, is expected to serve about 3,000 people in the first year. 

The growth in outpatient healthcare is a fundamental shift in US medicine, the article said. 

MetroHealth, which gets part of its funding from taxpayers and serves a large Medicaid population, has expanded outpatient visits from 850,000 to 1.2 million in the last four years, a 40 percent increase.

Read the article.

 

 



September 27, 2016


Topic Area: Industry News


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