July 2022 Utilization Report

Highlights: Looking at utilization metrics, all four measures tracked in Fig. 1, except acute care admissions, show a decrease in volumes for the month. Emergency department visits went from -19% last month to -27% below pre-COVID baselines in July. Ambulatory surgeries and psychiatric admissions follow the same pattern going from -6% to -21% and -28% to -32% below baselines respectively (see Fig. 1). Moreover, all five birthing hospitals saw an increase in newborn admissions for July with the highest cumulative number of admissions since December 2021 as reported in Table 11 of the report.