Prepare a PowerPoint presentation for an in-person class scheduled to last 30 minutes. The topic of the class will be computing hospital occupancy rates. Please be sure to include the following:
A. Census Census Days Inpatient Service Days (what they are and how they are computed)
B. Beds vs bassinets Reason why adults and children are computed separately from newborns.
C. Calculating occupancy rate for a day, a month, and a year (include caution about leap years)
D. Calculating occupancy rate when the bed count changes during the time period.
E. Discussion of why occupancy rate is an important statistic.