As Missouri's health care community continues to grow and demands for services increase, MHA has prepared information detailing various aspects of the state’s hospitals from 1999 to 2005, including hospital usage, patient days and hospital revenue. The 16 informational graphs illustrate the following components.

• hospital beds
• occupancy rates
• average length of stay: Medicare and Medicaid
• Medicare patients/discharges
• Medicaid patients/discharges
• hospital utilization
• inpatient days and average length of stay
• outpatient visits
• surgeries
• gross revenue by patient type
• personnel
• salaries and benefits
• net patient revenue
• operating revenue
• total margin
• liquidity

We hope this information provides you with a better understanding of hospital operations and the benefits they provide to their communities.