Acute care is treatment for a short period of time for a brief but severe episode of illness. The term is generally associated with care rendered in an emergency department, ambulatory care clinic, or other short-term stay facility. The number of beds indicates the number of people who could concurrently receive these services. An important aspect of the current health care crisis in the US is the result of the growing need for acute care despite a decrease in the number of facilities which provide that care. This mismatch has resulted from the dramatic increase in the number of patients who are uninsured or underinsured, and therefore unable to pay for services rendered. Those patients often turn to emergency departments for their acute care needs. That has resulted in overcrowding and made it increasingly difficult to focus adequate resources on those patients who present with true emergencies.Looking at numbers of professionals or facilities within a geographic area helps to focus on the availability of health care and its quality.
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Florida
CountyYearCount/RateRace/Ethnicity
Race/EthnicityYear
Age-adjusted Acute Care Beds, Rate Per 100,000 Population, Single Year|
2023 | 1,447 | | 55,617 | |
2022 | 1,447 | | 55,028 | |
2021 | 1,423 | | 54,365 | |
2020 | 1,397 | | 53,868 | |
2019 | 1,379 | | 53,552 | |
2018 | 1,319 | | 52,174 | |
2017 | 1,416 | | 52,102 | |
2016 | 1,200 | | 51,476 | |
2015 | 1,213 | | 50,894 | |
2014 | 1,213 | | 50,887 | |
2013 | 1,213 | | 50,934 | |
2012 | 1,223 | | 50,373 | |
2011 | 1,139 | | 49,777 | |
2010 | 1,115 | | 49,875 | |
2009 | 1,115 | | 49,765 | |
2008 | 1,281 | | 49,530 | |
2007 | 1,251 | | 49,200 | |
2006 | 1,204 | | 48,578 | |
2005 | 1,162 | | 48,021 | |
2004 | 1,138 | | 47,376 | |