Health services

Hospitals and actually set-up beds

In 2007, a total of 64 556 actually set-up beds were available at the 270 hospitals throughout Austria, i.e. 776 beds per 100 000 inhabitants. The number of beds has been cut gradually since the 1980s, with beds since reduced by 23.2%.

About 90% of planned beds were in general hospitals and in specialist hospitals and convalescent homes (64.8% and 24.5% respectively), 7.3% in sanatoriums, and 3.4% in nursing homes for the chronically ill.

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Results (overview): Hospitals and avtaully set-up beds since 1985

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