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How much space US hospitals plan, and how much they run: findings from 1,125 public filings and the Medicare cost reports of 6,046 hospitals.
Benchmark · Illinois
7 of 18 Illinois surgery projects plan more space per operating room than the state standard.
Their median is 2,370 departmental gross square feet (DGSF) per operating room (OR); the state standard is 2,750.
Each circle is one project's plan; the dashed line is the state standard.
Benchmark · United States
The typical hospital has 2,306 square feet of building for every bed.
Across 4,589 hospitals' fiscal year 2023 Medicare cost reports, the middle half run from 1,282 to 3,539 square feet per bed.
The line runs from the tenth to the ninetieth percentile, the bar covers the middle half, and the tick is the median.