U.S. Hospital Bed Supply Shrinks While Hospital Workforce Grows – Dartmouth Atlas Report Prompts Call for Reforms Some Mississippi Cities Have Twice the Beds of Some California Towns

April 2, 2009 This press release announces the completion of the "Hospital and Physician Capacity Update" report which analyzes "current hospital and physician capacity as well as trends over a 10-year period (1996-2006), which uncovered irrational distribution of valuable and expensive health care resources. The report found similar wide and persistent variations of acute care hospitals in 2006 that existed in 1996, and generally in the same places . . .