EXERCISES

• 15-1 Using the following data set on hospital admissions, define the service area for Hospital A, based only on quantitative factors (Table 15-5).
• 15-2 Compute the target bed capacity of Cheswick Community Hospital 10 years from now, based on the following information: Assume current population of Cheswick Community Hospital’s service area = 145,000 Assume projected population increase of 8% in service area over the next 10 years.

  Table 15-5 Hospital Admissions, by Community

  Community	Hospital A	Hospital B	Hospital C	Other Hospitals
  North	45	64	76	123
  South	159	324	12	521
  East	65	24	137	311
  West	145	68	95	113
  Central	32	56	78	159
  Upper	29	84	45	814
  Lower	37	14	8	57

  Assume a future admission rate per 1000 of 102. Assume average length of stay of 4.7 days in 10 years. Assume a target occupancy rate of 78% in 10 years.

• 15-3 Newgroveton is a community of 445,000. In the most recent year, there were 750 new cases of disease A in the community. Assume the expected incidence rate for disease A is 245 per 100,000 people. Was the community’s experience better or worse than expected? Explain your answer.