Has your hospital closed the floor for low census?

yes esp around Christmas and new years when most pt will put off any surgery off that is not an absolute emergency
with closed unts there was a wierd shifting of patients ob/gyn could not be closed but there were some non infecteous pts put in there same with pedi not closed but adults deemed to be safe, mvas etc were put in there until more floors could be opened..most nurses were happy to be off then..they usually had their shopping done and could concentrate on cooking and visitors

our hospital has been running a very low census- we were a total of 19 pts in the entire hospital including er. were not a small city-there is 7 hospitals in our city.