In Canada during the fiscal year of 2022/23, ten percent of hospital discharges to home care were with extended stay (the other 90 percent were timely discharged). This equates to over 38 thousand patients with extended hospital stays taking up inpatient acute care hospital beds, even though they didn't require acute care anymore. Among them, half spent up to an extra nine days in hospital.
This not only exacerbates crowding of emergency rooms (as the patients cannot be admitted and transferred if hospital beds are taken up), but also comes with a huge cost.
Number of hospital discharges to home care with or without extended stay in Canada in 2022-2023
An extended hospital stay happens when patients spend more days in an inpatient acute care hospital bed even though they don’t need acute care (also known as alternate level of care, or ALC) before they are discharged to home care.
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CIHI. (November 1, 2023). Number of hospital discharges to home care with or without extended stay in Canada in 2022-2023 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved October 02, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1445552/extended-hospital-stay-canada/
CIHI. "Number of hospital discharges to home care with or without extended stay in Canada in 2022-2023." Chart. November 1, 2023. Statista. Accessed October 02, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1445552/extended-hospital-stay-canada/
CIHI. (2023). Number of hospital discharges to home care with or without extended stay in Canada in 2022-2023. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: October 02, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1445552/extended-hospital-stay-canada/
CIHI. "Number of Hospital Discharges to Home Care with or without Extended Stay in Canada in 2022-2023." Statista, Statista Inc., 1 Nov 2023, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1445552/extended-hospital-stay-canada/
CIHI, Number of hospital discharges to home care with or without extended stay in Canada in 2022-2023 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1445552/extended-hospital-stay-canada/ (last visited October 02, 2024)
Number of hospital discharges to home care with or without extended stay in Canada in 2022-2023 [Graph], CIHI, November 1, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1445552/extended-hospital-stay-canada/