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

2021

2020

2019

Beds* 671 631 612
Average Daily Census* 511 479 497
Number of Inpatients* (admissions) 26,144 26,159 28,933
Days of Inpatient Care* 186,562 175,198 181,479
Average Number of Days in Hospital per Admission* (patient days/admission) 7.14 6.70 6.27
Average Length of Stay * (discharge days/discharges) 7.20 6.71 6.30
Outpatient Visits (includes Home Health visits) 953,246 882,420 922,713
Clinic Visits of Acquired Practices 200,508 198,195 199,525
Emergency Visits 57,700 60,385 64,237
Surgical Cases (Main Operating Room) 35,459 31,517 31,478
Live Births 2,123 1,953 1,929
Medical Center Imaging** 1,433,249 1,279,295 987,909
UVA Imaging (joint venture) 117,166 107,419 117,867
Billed Laboratory Tests 4,331,303 4,163,146 4,382,957
Full-time Faculty 1,032 940 903
Residents and Fellows 761 781 701
Professional Nurses**** 2,457 2,562 2,605
Full-time Equivalents -FTEs (excludes contract labor) 8,492 8,533 8,373
Volunteers 214 888 896
Volunteer Hours 37,916 70,157 87,697
Operating Expenses*** $1,829,948,733 $1,716,516,099 $1,671,581,557

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