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Healthcare infrastructure includes diverse organizations, such as medical offices; dental offices; hospitals; long-term care facilities; home care services; ambulatory surgery centers; public health departments; health insurance plans; and various industries that produce medications, medical devices, and healthcare technological applications.
- 2023/12
This section of the report highlights utilization of healthcare services, healthcare workforce statistics, healthcare expenditures, and major contributors to morbidity and mortality. These factors help paint an overall picture of the U.S. healthcare system, particularly areas that need improvement.
- 2021/12
- Condition of Facilities
- Capital Allocation
- Renovation Investments
- New Construction Investments
- Responsible Investment
The overall condition of America’s health care infrastructure varies widely. Hospitals with strong market positioning and forward-looking leadership have invested in maintenance and modernization, while some hospitals in struggling communities have been unable to keep up. Two key metrics of health care facility condition are the age of plant (AoP) ...
According to ASHE’s Healthcare Executive Leadership Council, most health care organizations develop sophisticated multiyear plans to determine where their capital will be used. Some key factors used to develop those plans include: Condition | Major health care organizations measure the condition of their facilities regularly. While the most commonl...
Primary motivations for investments in renovation projects include the following: Hospital modernization | Many older hospitals have surgical and diagnostic/treatment areas that do not meet current practice standards for patient safety and infection control. Data show that rural hospitals and hospitals with fewer than 400 beds are slightly older, o...
Key motivations for investments in new construction projects include the following: Population health initiatives | These initiatives aim to make health care available outside of the hospital and underscore the increasing need for freestanding structures that serve unique, timely, dual-function and innovative health purposes. These include structur...
The infrastructure of U.S. health care is not in critical condition, but it is aging. As with anything that ages, it takes more resources to keep existing facilities in top working order. Some professionally recognized and validated indicators show that investment in these resources has declined. Thus, early and responsible financial investment in ...
In any given year, most people in the United States interact with healthcare delivery systems through routine office-based physician visits. A smaller percentage of people seek emergency care services, and even fewer require hospitalization.
- 2022/10
Our study (1) enumerates the number of health systems in the United States; (2) characterizes systems by key structural attributes such as size, ownership, system type, and geographic presence; and (3) reports system penetration among hospitals, beds, and physicians.
The objectives of this report are to document methods used to identify health service areas for the United States and to describe and evaluate these areas. A health service area is defined as one or more counties that are relatively self-contained with respect to the provision of routine hospital care, Service areas
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May 2, 2024 · This descriptive study's primary objective was to examine the degree to which different geographic health care service area (HCSA) definitions captured inpatient utilization and heterogeneity in other social and economic determinants of health in the United States.
