at my hospital we do have mixed floors...some covid, some other stuff..
the problem is not the number of beds, its the lack of staff....
and also a huge problem is we have almost permanent patients...families dump them and won't take them back home, perhaps they can't, but no nursing home is going to take dementia patients who need 24/7 close supervision sometimes not even the locked down dementia units...very very expensive care ....thus, we have many patients who should not be in the hospital, taking up beds for months and months...
“families dump them and won’t take them back home”
Honestly?! You experience that? That is so sad.