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Hospital buildings have few alternative uses.

A year ago HEW published guidelines regulating hospital beds and occupancy rates. Reluctant to close their doors, administrators have sought conversion alternatives, most of them impractical and economically impossible. A go-slow attitude is recommended, as population increases will dictate hospitals' proper response.

Bed Occupancy

Reducing excess hospital capacity is a tough but necessary job.

Developing and implementing an effective program to reduce excess hospital capacity is an extremely difficult and complex task. But it is clearly a logical means to contain health care costs and to develope a cost-effective health system.

Facility Regulation and Control

The end of the line: when a hospital closes.

Seven hospitals that closed between 1974 and 1977 were forced to shut down by a variety of factors. Several of the closings were accomplished in a relatively painless fashion. Others were difficult and created many problems. The individuals involved in the closings and their aftermath learned many lessons, the chief among which is the critical need for communication among all parties involved.

Bed Occupancy