Clinical departements & inpatients clinics

As of 31 December 2020, the FDR UGH hospital had 910 beds available with another 15 beds available at the LÚČ Psychiatric Day Care Centre.

The following table shows the selected indicators of institutional health care as provided by the individual clinical departments and inpatient departments for the period of 2020:

1. the number of beds available,
2. Case Mix Index (hereinafter “CMI”) determining the average allocation of resources to care for a patient,
3. the number of hospital cases (hereinafter “HC”); one hospital case is understood as a hospitalization of a patient in an institutional medical facility (hospital) from the day of admission of the patient to the hospital until their discharge from the hospital regardless of how many DRG-relevant inpatient departments provided hospital care for the patient during their entire stay in the hospital,
4. the number of completed hospitalizations (hereinafter “CH”); one completed hospitalization understood as a hospitalization of a patient in an institutional medical facility (hospital) from the day of admission of the patient to the hospital until their discharge from the specific hospital’s inpatient department; currently, this indicator is used only in non-DRG-relevant departments, i.e., in Psychiatry and Institutional Nursing Care,
5. treatment duration (in days),
6. average bed occupancy rate, i.e., bed capacity utilization in %,
7. the average length of hospitalization (hereinafter “ALH”) defined as the number of days the patient stays in one institutional health facility in the DRG-relevant departments, excluding the day of discharge or transfer of the patient or the days on the pass.

Within the DRG system, 23,428 hospital cases were reported in 2020, while in 2019, 30,565 hospital cases were reported, which represents a 23.4% decrease. We recorded a negative development regarding the average length of treatment (it increased from 5.97 days in 2019 to 6.34 days in 2020). The reason for this is a constantly more demanding character of patients as represented by the CMI indicator, which increased from 1.395 in 2019 to 1.47 in 2020.

Within the non-DRG system, 1,022 completed hospitalizations were reported in 2019 and 703 completed hospitalizations were reported in 2020, i.e., a 32.1% decrease. We recorded a decrease in the average length of treatment (from 15.89 days in 2019 to 15.32 days in 2020).

Bed occupancy in both systems decreased from 64.72% to 47.86%.

The deterioration of indicators was influenced by the spread of the infectious respiratory disease COVID-19. The provision of planned institutional health care was partially limited and a selected number of beds were repurposed to COVID beds.