Bed Turnover Rate

Bed turnover rate divides discharges, including deaths and transfers out, by the number of available beds for the same period. A 60-bed hospital with 540 discharges in a quarter has a turnover of 9: each bed served nine patients. Its companion is turnover interval, the average number of days a bed stands empty between one patient and the next.

Why it matters in a hospital

Occupancy alone cannot distinguish a ward running many short stays from one running a few long ones, and those need completely different management. Turnover rate supplies the missing half. Read with length of stay it also exposes the trade a hospital is actually making: raising turnover by shortening stays is a different decision from raising it by cutting the empty gap between them, and only the second is unambiguously good. Note that some sources multiply turnover rate by 100 and call it a percentage — it is not a percentage of anything.

How Trisvio handles it

Trisvio derives discharges and available beds from the ward records rather than a separate return, so turnover can be read for any period without a manual count. The free calculator on this site works the figures the same way if you would rather check by hand.