Quote (Black XistenZ @ Mar 18 2020 09:43pm)
Because a bed in an ICU costs $10k++ in the U.S. - per night! They are a lot more lucrative for hospitals than normal beds.
Btw: here in Germany, we have around 28000 ICU beds for 82m people, which corresponds to 0.34 ICU units per 1k ppl, so more or less the same coverage as in the U.S.
Germany and the United states a relatively close amount of ICU beds per capita. The only thing is that you need to consider the type of ICU bed as well.
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The 2018 AHA data indicate that there are 5256 AHA-registered community hospitals in the United States...including 96,596 ICU beds...68,558 adult beds (medical-surgical 46,795, cardiac 14,445, and other ICU 7318), 5137 pediatric ICU beds, and 22,901 neonatal ICU beds