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Join us for a live taping of A Health Podyssey on March 12 with Yashaswini Singh about her upcoming paper in the March 2025 edition of Health Affairs and takes questions from a live audience.

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A recent study by researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, found that hospitals are on track to exceed the critical threshold of 85 percent hospital occupancy by 2032.

For this week's Flashback Friday, let's take a look at papers that have identified concerns and trends in hospital capacity and the potential operational implications.

Emergency Department Visits And Hospital Capacity In The US: Trends In The Medicare Population During The COVID-19 Pandemic

Peter B. Smulowitz et al. (July 2024)

Many Intensive Care Units Were Overloaded While Nearby Hospitals Had Excess Capacity During The COVID-19 Pandemic

Adam S. Vohra et al. (July 2023)

Financial Impacts And Operational Implications Of Private Equity Acquisition Of US Hospitals

Marcelo Cerullo et al. (April 2022)

Transparency As A Solution For COVID-19-Related Hospital Capacity Issues

Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer (February 2022)

Rethinking ICU Allocation In Times Of Crisis

Michael Nurok (March 2021)

Sabrina Poon on the Controversial Two-Midnight Rule & Its Effects on Hospital Admissions

November 2021

Published Today

BREAKDOWN: Health Care Private Equity Federal Reports

Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Senior Editor Kathleen Haddad back to the program to discuss two recent reports exploring the impacts of private equity on the US health care system.

Protecting Newborns From RSV: Opening A Reimbursement Pathway

Richard Hughes IV et al.

Medicare’s Drug Price Negotiation And Innovation: What’s Off The Table Matters Too

Feng Xie and Brittany Humphries