Essentials of Applied Quantitative Methods for Health Service Managers

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EXERCISES15-1 Using the following data set on hospital admissions, define the service area for Hospital A, based only on quantitative factors (Table 15-5 ). 15-2 Compute the target bed capacity of Cheswick Community Hospital 10 years from now, based on the following information: Assume current population of Cheswick Community Hospital’s service area = 145,000 Assume projected population increase of 8% in service area over the next 10 years. Table 15-5 Hospital Admissions, by Community

Community

Hospital A

Hospital B

Hospital C

Other Hospitals

North

 45

 64

 76

123

South

159

324

 12

521

East

 65

 24

137

311

West

145

 68

 95

113

Central

 32

 56

 78

159

Upper

 29

 84

 45

814

Lower

 37

 14

  8

 57Assume a future admission rate per 1000 of 102. Assume average length of stay of 4.7 days in 10 years. Assume a target occupancy rate of 78% in 10 years. 15-3 Newgroveton is a community of 445,000. In the most recent year, there were 750 new cases of disease A in the community. Assume the expected incidence rate for disease A is 245 per 100,000 people. Was the community’s experience better or worse than expected? Explain your answer.

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