mandated minimum levels of patients per nurse in the hospital setting. When the law was passed, some hospitals already had … acceptable staffing levels, while others had nurse staffing ratios that did not meet mandated standards. Thus changes in hospital …

mandated minimum levels of patients per nurse in the hospital setting. When the law was passed, some hospitals already had … acceptable staffing levels, while others had nurse staffing ratios that did not meet mandated standards. Thus changes in hospital …

hospital beds. Utilized capacity in the hospital industry, as measured by the inpatient hospital bed occupancy rate, has … which will penalize hospitals with low occupancy rates. We estimate a short run cost function for a hospital facing … strongly rejected in favor of the reformulated model. We calculate the cost of an empty hospital bed as $61,395 in 1987 dollars …