Number of hospitals with medical-surgical units and with intensive care units, numbers of nurses on them, and staffing and other hospital characteristics, by hospital location
| Medical-surgical | Intensive care | |||||||||||||
| Characteristics of hospital sample | NY | IL | NYC | Non-NYC | Total | NY | IL | NYC | Non-NYC | Total | ||||
| Counts | ||||||||||||||
| Hospitals | 135 | 119 | 47 | 207 | 254 | 99 | 80 | 37 | 142 | 179 | ||||
| Nurses | 2820 | 1478 | 877 | 3421 | 4298 | 1345 | 837 | 439 | 1743 | 2182 | ||||
| Nurses per hospital | 20.9 | 12.4 | 18.7 | 16.5 | 16.9 | 13.5 | 10.3 | 11.9 | 12.1 | 12.2 | ||||
| Staffing—patients per nurse | ||||||||||||||
| Mean | 5.9 | 5.2 | *** | 6.5 | 5.4 | *** | 2.3 | 2.2 | NS | 2.4 | 2.2 | ** | ||
| Minimum | 3.4 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 3.3 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.5 | ||||||
| Maximum | 8.8 | 9.7 | 8.8 | 9.7 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 3.6 | ||||||
| Hospital characteristics (%) | ||||||||||||||
| Size (number of beds) | ||||||||||||||
| Small (≤100) | 18.5 | 24.4 | NS | 2.1 | 25.6 | *** | 54 | 9.0 | 8.6 | NS | 0.0 | 11.1 | *** | 16 |
| Medium (101–250) | 30.4 | 36.1 | 23.4 | 35.3 | 84 | 27.0 | 37.0 | 13.5 | 36.1 | 57 | ||||
| Large (>250) | 51.1 | 39.5 | 74.5 | 39.1 | 116 | 64.0 | 54.3 | 86.5 | 52.8 | 108 | ||||
| Teaching status | ||||||||||||||
| Non-teaching | 32.5 | 58.2 | *** | 19.2 | 50.8 | *** | 105 | 26.6 | 55.4 | *** | 16.2 | 45.8 | *** | 66 |
| Minor teaching | 38.1 | 28.2 | 23.4 | 36.0 | 79 | 39.4 | 25.7 | 21.6 | 36.6 | 56 | ||||
| Major teaching | 29.4 | 13.6 | 57.5 | 13.2 | 52 | 34.0 | 18.9 | 62.2 | 17.6 | 46 | ||||
| High technology status | 29.6 | 54.7 | *** | 33.3 | 43.5 | NS | 84 | 40.0 | 71.6 | *** | 43.8 | 56.3 | NS | 80 |
Source: Nurse survey data.
Non-NYC hospitals refer to hospitals in the sample outside of the five NYC boroughs and Westchester and Nassau counties. NS refers to differences which are insignificant at the 0.05 level.
** and *** denote differences in hospital characteristics which are significant with p<0.01 and p<0.001, respectively, using F-statistics (for staffing) and χ2 tests for size, teaching status and technology.
IL, Illinois; NS, not significant; NY, New York; NYC, New York City.