Hosptial beds were reduced when the health care went from community hospitals to "health care systems." I remember New York was livid at the closings of hospitals after mergers were being carried out. There were a lot of beds closed at that time in NY.

The statistics to the left overlap somewhat.

Number of all hospital beds in the U.S. from 1975 to 2017 (click here)




It has been my very strong opinion for some time as a person with experience with the health care system, that
alloying hospitals to merge 
with CEOs taking charge of 
the USA "health care systems" is completely wrong.

It has always been my opinion that the Hill-Burton Grant Act (click here) was the greatest legislation that believed in the health of Americans. It was a HUGE mistake to allow hospitals to deteriorate over time while handing them to "so called" business principles.

HEALTH CARE IS NOT EFFICIENT. 

OBVIOUSLY!