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Should OMHS build a new hospital?
by Rodney Berry & Fran Ellers
Kentucky Annual Hospital Utilization And Services Report
2001 Inpatient Occupancy* |
2005 Inpatient Occupancy* |
2001 Inpatient Days, Private Pay |
2005 Inpatient Days, Private Pay |
2001 Inpatient Days, Medicare |
2005 Inpatient Days, Medicare |
2001 Inpatient Days, Medicaid |
2005 Inpatient Days, Medicaid |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OMHS | 49.7 % |
40.9 % |
36.1 % |
30.2 % |
50.4 % |
56.1 % |
13.5 % |
13.7 % |
| Ranking, other hospitals | 36 of 105 |
44 of 73 |
22 of 109 |
43 of 120 |
7 of 109 |
57 of 120 |
56 of 109 |
66 of 120 |
| Actual numbers | 71,139 |
61,900 |
25,686 |
23,799 |
35,848 |
44,214 |
9,605 |
10,784 |
*Acute, non-psychiatric inpatients
Acute care |
Intensive care |
Neonatal |
Newborn days |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2001 |
2005 |
2001 |
2005 |
2001 |
2005 |
2001 |
2005 |
|
| Average days per bed | 258 |
213 |
229 |
208 |
18 |
30 |
124 |
121 |
| Number of beds | 291 |
291 |
34 |
34 |
5 |
5 |
34 |
34 |
| Number of days | 75,257 |
61,900 |
7,813 |
7,084 |
82 |
152 |
4,220 |
4,121 |
| State average days per bed | 206 |
212 |
210 |
269 |
222 |
232 |
130 |
115 |
OMHS Facts |
|
| Current Campus | 57 acres |
| Beds | 347 |
| Employees | 2,690 |
| Staff Physicians | 220 |
| Specialties | 35 |
| Annual Payroll | $82 million |
| Annual City Occupational Tax Paid | $1.09 million |
| Annual Admissions | 20,800 |
| Operating Rooms | 14 |
| Recovery Rooms | 26 |
| Service Area | 11 counties: Daviess, Hancock, Ohio, Muhlenberg, McLean, Webster, Hopkins, Henderson, Breckenridge, Spencer (Ind.) and Perry (Ind.) |
| Annual Emergency Room Patients | 65,000 |
| Annual Convenient Care Patients | 32,000 |
| Annual Charity Care | $15 million |
Major Hospital/Health Care Facilities Built or Planned in our Area |
|
| Ohio County (KY) Hospital | 25-bed acute care facility |
| Perry County (IN) Memorial Hospital | 25-bed critical access facility |
| Trover Hospital (Madisonville) | 410-bed |
| Deaconess Hospital (Evansville) | 365-bed |
| Deaconess Gateway Hospital (Evansville) | 116-bed |
| Methodist Hospital (Henderson) | 216-bed |
| Methodist Hospital (Union County) | 25-bed acute critical access 16-long term beds |
| St. Mary’s Hospital (Evansville) | 564-bed |
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