To Assess And Improve The Low Bed Occupancy Rate In Mida Weremo Primary Hospital Amhara Ethiopia 2019

Introduction: Low bed occupancy rate (BOR) is the one of the biggest problem of thernhospital. As a result it brings the indication of low quality health care services, customer andrnstaff dissatisfaction and poor revenue generation. In this study measured and improved bedrnoccupancy rate focused on installing operation care materials and start operation care servicernand provided post operative care at surgical ward in Mida Weremo primary hospital in Amhararn/Ethiopia.rnObjective: To assess and improve low bed occupancy rate from 33.2% to 75% by the end ofrnMay 2019 G.CrnMethodology: A pre-post intervention study design was used to improve the low bedrnoccupancy rate in Mida Weremo Primary Hospital. Data was collect from the admission andrndischarge registration log books including all patients admitted pre and post intervention byrnusing the check list from each ward by data collectors. Total of 331 admitted patients werernenrolled in study. Data was analyzed by using the following formula to calculate the BORrnFormula of BOR= Total number of patient days for a given period (length of stay) x 100rnAvailable beds (bed complement) x the number of days in the periodrnResult: Socio-demographic section of the study most admitted patients are male (59.3%) andrnChristian (82.7%). The mean ± SD age was 33.7 ± 27 and 32.4 ± 24.4 in the pre interventionrnand post intervention respectively. During the pre intervention study the BOR was 32.3%,rn32%, 36% and 30.1% on September, October, November and December respectively.rnOperation service was started at the month of January. In this pre-post study BOR when we seernthe progress of BOR in each month with in the intervention periods 55.8%, 63.3%, 74.1% andrn86.6% on February, March, April and May respectively.rnConclusion: The fact that the hospital hasn’t started giving operation and post operation carernservice was attributed for low BOR and initiating this service was the main change idea.rnDuring post intervention period BOR was increased from 33.8% to 70% in this interventionrnperiod.rnRecommendation: It was recommended to hospital manager to give more attention and thatrnthe departments should record and report the necessary data accurately. It was alsornrecommended to give more emphasis and do more researches on this field

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