Facts & Statistics

Hospital and patient care statistics, including information on such topics as number of admissions, average length of stay, and more.

This data is by fiscal year, which at UVA Health runs from July 1 to June 30.

Patient Care Services

2023

2022

2021

Beds* 659 670 671
Average Daily Census* 535 528 511
Number of Inpatients* (admissions) 26,400 25,601 26,144
Days of Inpatient Care* 195,225 192,851 186,562
Average Number of Days in Hospital per Admission* (patient days/admission) 7.39 7.53 7.14
Average Length of Stay * (discharge days/discharges) 7.50 7.53 7.20
Outpatient Visits (includes Home Health visits) 1,052,452 978,561 953,246
Clinic Visits of Acquired Practices 223,410 225,356 200,508
Emergency Visits 72,153 64,371 57,700
Surgical Cases (Main Operating Room) 40,706 36,204 35,459
Live Births 2,312 2,206 2,123
Medical Center Imaging** 1,161,336 1,103,732. 1,433,249
UVA Imaging (joint venture) 156,838 135,658 117,166
Billed Laboratory Tests 4,601,383 4,459,857 4,331,303
Full-time Faculty 1,098 1,079 1,032
Residents and Fellows 793 767 761
Professional Nurses**** 2,598 2,668 2,457
Full-time Equivalents -FTEs (excludes contract labor) 8,348 8,827 8,492
Volunteers 726 669 214
Volunteer Hours 62,386 51,092 37,916
Operating Expenses*** $2,388,653,298 $2,088,967,155 $1,829,948,733

These figures exclude the Transitional Care Hospital, which became operational in 2011.

* Excluding Normal Newborns

** Medical Center Imaging changed from procedures to Ambulatory Payment Classification (a way to weigh procedures according to how resource intense they are) in FY12.

*** Bad debt is reported as a reduction to revenue beginning in FY13. Prior to that, bad debt was reported as an operating expense.

**** Total FTEs for the RN Job Family for both Primary and Secondary roles