Weekly Hospital Capacity and COVID-19 Impact by Facility

Facility-level data on hospital utilization and COVID-19 patient impact aggregated weekly from July 31, 2020. The dataset is derived from reports submitted to HHS Protect and HHS TeleTracking by hospitals registered with CMS. No updates were made after May 3, 2024, as mandatory reporting ended.

Use Cases

• Modeling hospital bed occupancy trends using 'all_adult_hospital_inpatient_bed_occupied_7_day_avg' and 'inpatient_beds_used_7_day_avg'.
• Analyzing ICU capacity for pediatric patients with 'staffed_pediatric_icu_bed_occupancy_7_day_avg' and 'total_pediatric_patients_hospitalized_confirmed_covid_7_day_avg'.
• Tracking confirmed COVID-19 admissions by age group via columns like 'previous_day_admission_adult_covid_confirmed_80+_7_day_sum'.
• Assessing reporting completeness for facilities using '_coverage' suffix columns such as 'previous_day_admission_adult_covid_confirmed_7_day_coverage'.
• Geospatial analysis of hospital resource distribution using 'geocoded_hospital_address'.

Strengths

• Facility-level granularity for detailed analysis of individual hospitals.
• Weekly time-series data starting July 31, 2020, enabling longitudinal studies.
• Multiple data aggregations provided per metric via '_avg', '_sum', and '_coverage' columns.

Limitations

• Data excludes psychiatric, rehabilitation, IHS, VA, and DHA facilities, limiting scope.
• Sums and averages based on fewer than four reports are suppressed and replaced with '-999,999'.
• No statistical imputation for non-response, potentially creating gaps.

Provenance

Source

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) via datahub.hhs.gov.

Collection Method

Aggregated from facility-level reports submitted to HHS Protect and HHS TeleTracking.

Time Range

July 31, 2020 to May 3, 2024.

Freshness

Final update was May 3, 2024; the dataset is historical and no longer updated.

Geography

United States, covering hospitals registered with CMS.