Virginia Hospital Bed Utilization Data

RPC knows that data collection and working with large data sets can be a challenge, and has created the Health Data Store to serve as a continuously updated repository of health care data. The Health Data Store can provide you with customizable data, ranging from large nation-wide data sets to smaller and more pointed reports or health care snapshots. Our experience working with Virginia Hospital Bed Utilization data files allows us to query and package the data with confidence. We can also incorporate information from several different data sets to create in-depth, longitudinal analysis of the health care markets you are interested in. Please do not hesitate to contact us to discuss how the Health Data Store can help you with your information needs.

Virginia Health Information (VHI) collects and releases data on hospitals operating within the state. The data is obtained from hospitals' annual licensure surveys, which are collected annually. The VHI bed utilization data shows information for each hospital operating in Virginia as well as utilization data for twenty major service units.

The data set includes information on hospital characteristics as well as measures of the amount of care provided. Some useful types of data included in the VHI Bed Utilization database are:

Some useful data elements include:

• Hospital addresses and administrator names and titles
• Licensed beds by bed classification
• Staffed beds by bed classification
• Patient days by bed type
• Discharges by bed type
• Discharge days by bed type
• Short stay discharges by bed type

RPC holds these files from 2005 to 2009 (the most recent year available).

Reporting Hospitals
All non-Federal hospitals in Virginia must submit annual licensure surveys to the Virginia Department of Health. This information is gathered into the Bed Utilization database by VHI. IN the most recent year available 87 hospitals had data reported in the VHI Bed Utilization file.

Data Applications
We can provide custom reports, graphs and maps using this data file and combining it with other health care and demographic files.

The tabulations and analysis RPC offers based on data from the VHI Bed Utilization data has many potential uses for healthcare planners, financial analysts, and hospital executives. RPC offers custom reports using the VHI Bed Utilization data, and our consultants are happy to talk to you about how we can use the file to best meet your needs. A sample of the kinds of healthcare data that can be gathered from the file are included below.

• Hospital occupancy analysis by bed type
• Comparison of patient volumes across hospitals
• Analysis of patient volumes by geographic areas
• Analysis of admissions by health planning district or region
• Average length of stay analysis by hospital, bed type or region

Data Use Restrictions
There are no stated data use restrictions for Virginia Hospital Bed Utilization Data.