Rhode Island’s hospitals will need to add 200 to 400 extra beds in the next 25 years to avoid a shortage, especially in Providence, requiring investments of $300 million to $800 million for those expansions alone, not to mention much-needed renovations and modernization.
Those are some of the findings of “Under Pressure,” a study sponsored by the Rhode Island SHAPE Foundation to be released today at 3 p.m. at a hearing of the Permanent Joint Legislative Committee on Health Care Oversight.
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“This study suggests Rhode Island’s health care and policy leaders need to wrestle with some major questions about where our health care facilities are headed, and how to best get there,” said D. Faye Sanders, executive director of SHAPE. “It has implications for everything from technology adoption to our regulatory environment, and for how to finance necessary steps forward in an environment with such challenging resource constraints.”
The study is the last of four follow-ups to the 2002 SHAPE study sponsored by Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island. It was conducted by Booz Allen Hamilton and Sg2 with a 26-member panel of experts chaired by retired Supreme Court Justice Robert G. Flanders Jr. The full text will be posted, after the official release, at www.rishape.org.
