title: Making room for more beds. With additional patients streaming in every day, hospitals must learn to think creatively to find space for everyone.
abstract: With more patients streaming inside, acute-care hospitals are being forced to get creative about finding spots for beds. Some are reactivating dormant rooms, opening shuttered wings or transforming administrative areas into clinical space, such as Florida Hospital East Orlando, left. The surge comes as the number of hospitals drops and the number of beds rises along with census counts.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Romano
mesh_terms: D001508:Bed Conversion; D001509:Bed Occupancy / Q000639:trends*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000639:trends*; D006749:Hospital Design and Construction; D006752:Hospital Planning; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States