You are a health care administrator of your local medical facility, and you have been asked to give a presentation showing the importance of the census in the hospital setting.
Develop a PowerPoint presentation that outlines the information listed below.
How your hospital uses the census on a daily basis (when the information is collected and how is it used).
How inpatient service days (IPSD) and the daily inpatient census (DIPC) are used and affect the financial well-being of the organization (include the roles that admitted and discharged (A&D) play in the calculation of the each).
How the census is used by the hospital and how it can help the hospital identify health care trends.