Delaware's Beebe Healthcare is dropping plans to add more beds to its Lewes campus because fewer people are being admitted to the hospital, according to an article on the Delaware Online website.
Officials say this is a sign of a changing ideology in healthcare. The goal now is to keep people healthy, not just treat sick people.
Beebe planned to spend $103 million on the expansion and begin construction in 2018. It also received a $10 million donation for the project.
But in the past year, the hospital's census showed that the daily average number of patients has gone down from 156 in 2017 to 143 so far in 2018. The number of inpatient surgeries has decreased, too.
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