The report, “America’s Safety Net Hospitals and Health Systems, 2010” found NAPH members had an average of 21,300 inpatient admissions in 2010 compared with 7,345 admissions reported by acute-care hospitals nationally. One reason for this difference may be that NAPH members are generally larger than other acute-care hospitals: The average NAPH facility has 438 beds — more than double the size of the average acute-care hospital nationally, according to the report.
Other findings include the following:
• NAPH members’ average inpatient volume has increased from 18,000 admissions in 1998 to more than 21,000 in 2010.
• At an average of 78,743 patients, NAPH members had nearly three times the volume of emergency department visits in 2010 compared with other acute-care hospitals.
• Excluding ED volume, NAPH members had an average outpatient visit volume of 494,977 compared with 105,837 for acute-care hospitals nationally.
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