2020 forced hospitals and health systems to look at the constraints of their facilities in a very real way.
While capacity has long been a balancing act between efficiency and the need to adequately serve the patient population, the pandemic forced health leaders to reconsider their available bed space. As hospitalizations abate (hopefully) as we get deeper into 2021, don’t be surprised to see thorough evaluations of how various systems responded to surges in demand, with an eye toward how to improve such responses in the future.