Concept: Bed Counts - Acute Care Hospital

Winnipeg Acute Care Hospital Beds

The Monitoring the Winnipeg Hospital System: 1990/91 through 1996/97 report contains bed count information representing the acute care beds in Winnipeg hospitals. The table has been reproduced below, adding 1997 bed counts.

Note: Current bed counts can be obtained from documents in the Links section below (internal access only) .

Table 1: History of Acute Bed Closures at Winnipeg Hospitals
Acute Bed Changes 1990-1996



Year	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997
Total Acute Beds	3,042	3,042	3,013	2,707	2,498	2,460	2,384	2,311
Net Changes by Type of Hospital
Teaching	0	(29)	(279)	(54)	(25)	(17)	(60)	4
Other	0	0	(27)	(155)	(13)	(59)	(13)	0
Total	0	(29)	(306)	(209)	(38)	(76)	(73)	0
Change % decrease	0	(1.0)	(10.2)*	(7.7)*	(1.5)	(3.1)	(3)	0.002


* These values represent the loss of available acute beds. However, many acute beds were occupied by the system; in 1993 when a further 209 acute care beds closed, 24 non-acute beds were added. The net increase in non-acute beds between 1991 and 1996 was 59 beds.

The numbers reported in the Monitoring Winnipeg Hospital report are different than those reported in the bed map for acute care hospitals. The above table represents only acute care beds the bed map contains information on both acute care and other beds. For example the number of beds reported for April 1996 in the bed map is: 2585. The following long term care bed numbers were removed. -60 from Concordia - PCH beds -56 from Grace - LTC/PCH beds -20 from HSC - LTC beds -65 from Seven Oaks - LTC/PCH beds = 2384

Except for some PCH beds in the acute care hospitals it is not easy to separate the patients in the long term care beds from acute beds using the hospital discharge abstract data.

Acute Care Hospital Beds by RHA

The numbers provided below include both acute and other beds as indicated in the bed map. Federal hospitals in Burntwood and Interlake have also been included each with 16 beds. The bed counts are as of the end of the fiscal year.

Hospital Beds by RHA

RHA	85/86	86/87	87/88	88/89	89/90	90/91	91/92	92/93	93/94	94/95	95/96	96/97	97/98	98/99
Brandon	430	401	401	401	393	377	381	331	319	319	299	279	289	336
Burntwood	164	164	154	154	159	154	159	144	144	131	131	131	121	117
Central	470	472	472	472	466	460	460	448	440	432	424	422	397	401
Churchill	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31
Interlake	213	213	213	213	213	213	213	213	213	213	210	195	194	191
Marquette	245	245	245	245	243	245	231	231	231	227	229	227	223	223
NOR-MAN	198	189	188	188	188	188	189	188	164	164	145	134	134	135
North Eastman	85	85	91	91	91	91	91	88	83	80	80	80	80	80
Parkland	359	362	362	362	362	358	358	352	351	351	295	287	246	256
South Eastman	127	127	131	131	128	128	131	129	129	126	126	124	124	124
South Westman	234	232	235	235	235	227	225	213	213	213	213	212	211	210
Winnipeg	3385	3356	3297	3253	3248	3253	3208	2890	2705	2667	2550	2477	2515	2303

Hospital Beds per 1000 Population by RHA

RHA	85/86	86/87	87/88	88/89	89/90	90/91	91/92	92/93	93/94	94/95	95/96	96/97	97/98	98/99
Brandon	9.56	8.81	8.73	8.70	8.28	7.94	7.99	6.96	6.80	6.85	6.43	5.97	6.24	7.16
Burntwood	3.35	3.30	3.12	3.12	3.75	3.63	3.72	3.37	3.36	3.04	3.01	2.95	2.73	2.61
Central	5.06	5.07	5.05	5.04	5.03	5.00	5.00	4.90	4.67	4.54	4.42	4.38	4.13	4.12
Churchill	19.61	20.30	23.01	23.72	24.84	24.78	23.81	25.31	27.68	28.23	28.39	29.52	30.24	29.30
Interlake	3.13	3.08	3.03	3.00	2.96	2.97	2.96	2.96	2.94	2.92	2.87	2.65	2.63	2.56
Marquette	5.93	5.98	6.03	6.11	6.24	6.40	6.08	6.10	6.07	5.97	6.06	6.02	5.93	5.90
NOR-MAN	8.21	8.00	8.08	8.02	7.20	7.26	7.31	7.33	6.50	6.57	5.82	5.33	5.31	5.30
North Eastman	2.57	2.58	2.73	2.73	2.59	2.58	2.55	2.42	2.25	2.14	2.13	2.09	2.08	2.06
Parkland	8.10	8.27	8.43	8.49	7.89	7.92	7.99	7.92	7.94	7.95	6.72	6.56	5.67	5.88
South Eastman	2.85	2.77	2.78	2.73	2.64	2.63	2.66	2.61	2.57	2.49	2.46	2.39	2.39	2.35
South Westman	5.82	5.84	6.01	6.10	6.44	6.30	6.29	5.99	6.00	6.02	6.04	6.05	6.09	6.04
Winnipeg	5.39	5.30	5.17	5.06	5.02	5.00	4.91	4.43	4.18	4.12	3.96	3.86	3.93	3.56

The populations counts are from the December snap shot of the Manitoba Health Registry.

The question is: How do you want to count the beds?


• Beginning of the fiscal year, end of the fiscal year, or some point in between?
• Include only acute beds or acute and other beds?
• Include or exclude federal and long-term care hospitals?
• PCH beds in acute care hospitals?

Prior to April 1997, the beds were assigned to the RHA by the postal code location of the hospital.

Note: Numbers are representative of the end of fiscal year.

Data Source: Bed numbers for each hospital are supplied by Manitoba Health - annual bed map taken as of March 31 (usually). In some older records the information comes from the Manitoba Annual Statistics.

MORE INFORMATION:

• Manitoba Health. Bed Map Reports 1994/95 throughout 1998/99
  
  
• Manitoba Health. Manitoba Health Annual Report 1993/94

• Manitoba Health. Manitoba Health Annual Statistics 1985/86 - 1991/92.