HELICON CONSULTING, INC.

 

HEALTH CARE FACILITY & SPACE PLANNING

Inpatient Bed and Unit Planning

Bed planning includes projecting the number of beds that are needed at each acuity level
and specialty. This involves applying the opposing trends of managed care and an aging
population on current census data and developing potential future scenarios.
Practice pattern trends, optimal unit attributes, and operational objectives are used
to stack the bed tower (assign bed locations) and develop unit configurations.

Future Bed Capacity
 
Current Bed Capacity
Recommended Bed Stack
Short-term Capacity
Long-term Capacity
Beds
Beds
Beds
Medicine
140
148
132
(20 of these beds may become sub-acute)
Cardiovascular
58
58
58
Surgery
102
100
116
Burn
10
10
10
Neuroscience
20
20
24
TOTAL
330
336
340

HELICON CONSULTING, INC.
4905 Montvale Drive
Durham, North Carolina 27705
919.824.6489
jstrauman@HeliconConsulting.org