Hospital mergers and short falls in federal spending have reduced pediatric inpatient units and increased regionalism.

Hospital executives face a predicament. How can they improve inpatient capacity today while planning for a future in which demand for inpatient services is expected to decline? Industry forecasts ...

Inpatient care is treatment you get when you stay in a hospital overnight. With outpatient care or procedures, you go home the same day. You get inpatient care when you've been formally admitted to a ...