WHITE PAPER
Hospital Capacity Management: Making Best Use of Available Resources
Using effective capacity management to thrive in a time of resource scarcity
Jul 24, 2023
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Hospitals and hospital workers were not only at the forefront of the pandemic battle, they are now also facing an increasingly harsh healthcare environment. Underlying long-term trends of demographic change and more advanced, but also more expensive, therapies test the affordability of healthcare systems, and the post-pandemic fallout along with a global economic downturn mean healthcare budgets will be tight for years to come. Healthcare workers too, are becoming a rare resource, with more workers leaving the profession than entering it, and with those who remain struggling with burn out, overwork, and physical and mental fatigue.

For hospitals, this means they cannot go on operating as they have in the past if they want to survive in this setting. They will have to learn to meet rising demands without a concomitant increase in resources and will have to contend with higher expectations not only of the quality of treatment and care, but also increasingly of the quality of the patient experience and workplace environment.

This white paper discusses capacity management as an essential part of the operational and strategic toolkit for individual hospitals of all sizes and networks of multiple providers alike. Exploring how capacity management enables optimum resource utilization through aligning resources, processes, and planning across individual providers and networks. Future-proofing hospitals in a world of scarcer resources and higher demands.

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