Published Oct 12, 2008
Fonenurse
493 Posts
Hi, I'm curious. I'm currently working on a project with an American company, and more and more I realise how different things are between the USA and the UK.
One issue is the size of facilities. In the UK our hospital is of an average size, for the UK. We have 800 beds in our facility. How big is your facility, wherever in the world you nurse???
Murse901, MSN, RN
731 Posts
3,680 beds.
But it's a correctional facility.
Reno1978, BSN, RN
1,133 Posts
808 beds
sonja77
187 Posts
149 beds
lpnflorida
1,304 Posts
I work for a health care system non profit which includes five acute care hospital locations, as well as other healthcare facilities and services, which include a home health agency, a nursing home, outpatient treatment and diagnostic centers, physician offices, a children's hospital and a rehabilitation hospital. The largest hospital in our system is 420 beds. to the smallest being 60 beds.
mama_d, BSN, RN
1,187 Posts
The facility I work in is part of a larger network of freestanding medical offices, hospitals, acute rehab, etc. My facility has a total of about 450 approved beds, average census is around 350-380. The approved beds include those for new units opening soon but currently under construction.
When I first started nursing, I started out in a rural facility where we were considered to have a high census if there were 30 patients in-house...now I work on floor that has 25 beds and is often full. What a change that was!
nrsang97, BSN, RN
2,602 Posts
We are a level 1 trauma center in the inner city Detroit. We have 900+ beds and will be opening more soon.
Tweety, BSN, RN
35,418 Posts
350 beds....Level II Trauma Center with high risk OB. No peds. Like mamma d above, our licensed beds are much higher at 500 than what we actually use. Our census typically is about 250 to 300. It stays over 300 "in season" which in Florida is the winter.
loriangel14, RN
6,931 Posts
26 beds. Canada.
OK - we have a different system in the UK, so when you say level 1 center or level 2, can you explain what that means?
midmichiganRN
10 Posts
142 beds (all private!!) mid size hospital
Babs0512
846 Posts
300 beds, community hospital, not for profit (yeah, right!)