ORLANDO, Fla. – With Florida coronavirus cases approaching 10,000 Friday, the Agency for Health Care Administration is tracking available hospital and ICU beds around the state and making those numbers public to help determine what resources will be needed in the weeks to come.
AHCA administers Florida’s Medicaid program, as well as licenses, and regulates more than 44,000 healthcare facilities across the state.
Working with healthcare facilities, the agency created a dashboard that shows hospital bed availability totals, including ICU beds, at both the county and hospital level.
The numbers are updated hourly by the AHCA. Statewide, there are 59,271 hospital beds and only 41% of those are currently available, according to the data released