anyone else having low unit census?

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Anyone else experiencing low unit census? I work in a Cleveland area hospital and our census has been unusually low for months. I'm wondering if it is just my hospital or if it's a trend elsewhere too.

Specializes in ICU, Research, Corrections.

Two 20 bed units. One CVICU the other M/S ICU. Low census has been a

continuing problem for about a year. Some nights we are full, but half the unit

has turned into tele pts during the day and we ship them all out to tele.

Most of us have PRN jobs to keep our income up due to call offs during low census.

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Alabama here, we went from 1-3pts (12 bed unit) for about a week then full with holds in the ER. The hospital was low too. It comes and gos.

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Specializes in OR, CV ICU, IMCU.

In Houston: we closed down our CV ICU on Sunday and Monday morning because of a low census. This is the first time this has happened in the three years I've been here. I must say, it was nice to be off for the International Fest.:)

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