More hospitals will get dangerously overcrowded, researchers project

More hospitals will get dangerously overcrowded, researchers project

If your local hospital isn’t already packed with patients, there’s a good chance it will be in a few years. That’s the conclusion of a research letter published in JAMA Network Open that projects overall national hospital occupancy will reach an unsafe level by 2032.  The paper provokes important questions that journalists can strive to answer:  Are your local hospitals operating at unsafe capacities? If so, how are patients being affected? How…