Highlights

Comparing utilization metrics to pre-COVID baselines, most metrics show a noted decrease during April throughout the report. Acute care admissions went from -10% below baseline last month to -14% in April, while psychiatric admissions decreased from -14% to -22%. Emergency department visits also show a slight decrease going from -24% below baseline last month to -25%. Though observation visits were also down slightly for the month of April, utilization of these services remains at or near pre-COVID levels over the last 15 months displayed.

Highlights: Comparing utilization metrics to pre-COVID baselines, most metrics show a noted increase in volumes this month throughout the report. Acute care admissions went up from -23% to -10% below baseline, with all hospitals presenting higher volumes. Emergency Department visits increased going from -39% to -24% below baseline. Notably, ambulatory surgeries returned to levels greater than the pre-COVID baseline for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic at 8% greater than pre- COVID baseline for the month of March (Fig. 1).

Highlights: Analysis of utilization metrics relative to pre-COVID baseline shows a continued decrease of acute care admissions this month as they now stand at 23% below pre-COVID baseline, and emergency department visits still on the downward trend at 39% below baseline. Conversely, there is an uptick in ambulatory surgeries and psychiatric admissions this month, with a 17% and 8% increase respectively. The psychiatric admissions increase is reflected in the bottom graph on page 15 of the report, which depicts all but one hospital observing a higher volume.