She endured the harrowing experience with grace, respectfully requesting a hospital bed each morning, even as she struggled to sit up on her lumpy stretcher so I could listen to her lungs ...

U.S. is headed toward a hospital bed shortage, researchers warn The researchers project that annual hospitalizations will rise from 36 million in 2025 to 40 million in 2035. March 8, 2025 ...

Leuchter called for greater investment in hospital care, noting that $1.5 trillion of annual U.S. health care spending is hospital expenditures, which is around 30% of national health care spending.

According to Consumer Affairs, the purchase cost of a hospital bed generally starts at around $500 but can climb into the thousands. The cost of renting, meanwhile, ranges from $200 to $500 ...

Half of the 104 bed hospital will be dedicated to acute in-patient care and the other half will be for people charged with crimes who need to be evaluated for competency to stand trial.

In the television drama “The Pitt,” patients in a fictional emergency room in Pittsburgh are sometimes “boarded” in corridors for hours, even days, waiting for a hospital bed. Art, in this ...