Medicare Short Stay Hospital Beds in New England

Short stay hospitals, which provide acute inpatient care, are the backbone to the hospital infrastructure that serves more than 60 million Americans having Medicare Part A insurance coverage.  Of the more than 6,000 hospitals participating in the Medicare program, more than 53% were short stay hospitals.  More importantly, short stay hospitals accounted for over 83% of the total hospital beds serving the inpatient hospital care needs of Medicare Part A enrollees.  

In New England, as of calendar year 2019, there were 131 short stay hospitals, with just over 30,000 beds, participating in the Medicare program.  While the region was home to about 5% of the nation's Medicare Part A enrollment, it had less than 4% of the Medicare program's short stay hospital beds.  Here is a state-level look at Medicare short stay hospital beds in New England.:

Medicare Short Stay Hospital Beds in New England

	# Part A Enrollees		# Hospitals	# Beds
CT	678,133		29	7,884
MA	1,329,279		56	12,740
ME	337,672		17	2,944
NH	298,585		13	2,720
RI	218,492		10	2,583
VT	147,133		6	1,445
Region	3,009,294		131	30,316
National*	61,166,694		3,283	779,466
% of National	4.9%		4.0%	3.9%

* National totals include U.S. territories

Source:  CMS Program Statistics, Table: MDCR PROVIDERS 4. Medicare Providers:  Number of Medicare Certified Hospitals and Skilled Nursing Facilities, and Number of Beds, by State, Territories, Possessions and Other, Calendar Year 2019