Top 10 Hospitals in Florida by Acute Inpatient Days
In the last post, we look at the largest hospitals in Florida based on beds in service. Now, I want to take a look at the largest hospitals based on Acute Inpatient Beds. What will this tell us? It will give us a sense of how busy the hospital is. A hospital may have lots of beds that aren’t occupied. The days will reveal that.
Acute beds are Med/Surg, NICU, ICU, Burn Center, Obstetrics and Pediatrics. Mainly, it’s not newborn and it’s not what we call sub-acute units like Psych, Rehab, and Skilled Nursing.
Let’s see who has the most Acute Inpatient Days.
| # | Hospital | City | Beds | IP Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ADVENTHEALTH ORLANDO | ORLANDO | 2,753 | 666,280 |
| 2 | ORLANDO HEALTH | ORLANDO | 1,468 | 407,667 |
| 3 | JACKSON MEMORIAL | MIAMI | 1,457 | 389,401 |
| 4 | TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL | TAMPA | 920 | 279,342 |
| 5 | ST. JOSEPHS HOSPITAL | TAMPA | 1,062 | 274,468 |
| 6 | UF HEALTH SHANDS | GAINESVILLE | 872 | 265,794 |
| 7 | BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER | JACKSONVILLE | 855 | 237,403 |
| 8 | MEMORIAL REGIONAL HOSPITAL | HOLLYWOOD | 870 | 202,875 |
| 9 | BAPTIST HOSPITAL | MIAMI | 705 | 185,808 |
| 10 | LEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | FORT MYERS | 743 | 185,206 |
AdventHealth Orlando takes top spot again. In fact, numbers 1-3 are all the same. Number 4, Tampa General, moved up a spot, and St Josephs Hospital dropped to number 5.
Let’s check the occupancy percentage to see how it compares between the hospitals.
| # | Hospital | City | Occupancy % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ADVENTHEALTH ORLANDO | ORLANDO | 66.3% |
| 2 | ORLANDO HEALTH | ORLANDO | 76.1% |
| 3 | JACKSON MEMORIAL | MIAMI | 73.2% |
| 4 | TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL | TAMPA | 83.2% |
| 5 | ST. JOSEPHS HOSPITAL | TAMPA | 70.8% |
| 6 | UF HEALTH SHANDS | GAINESVILLE | 83.5% |
| 7 | BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER | JACKSONVILLE | 76.1% |
| 8 | MEMORIAL REGIONAL HOSPITAL | HOLLYWOOD | 63.9% |
| 9 | BAPTIST HOSPITAL | MIAMI | 72.2% |
| 10 | LEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | FORT MYERS | 68.3% |
Tampa General is at 83.2% and UF Health Shands is at 83.5%. Even though they have less beds, the ones they do have are occupied more often than AdventHealth Orlando.
I haven’t look at UF Health Shands in Gainesville, yet. Let’s see if I can find anything interesting about them.
UF Health Shands is a teaching hospital of the University of Florida. It is named after William A. Shands, who was a Florida state Senator in the 1940’s. Shands worked to establish a teaching hospital at the University of Florida. The University of Florida Colleges of Medicine and Nursing opened in 1956. Two years later, the UF Teaching Hospital was started, on October 20, 1958. 1
Musing Revelations
These are large hospital systems and they are busy! I find it interesting how many of them are organ transplant centers and a good many of them have teaching programs. Guess everyone wants to go to Medical School in the Sunshine State!
Next we’ll take a look at just how many doctors are training at hospitals in Florida. Stay tuned.