-0.0%Patient-day change · Q1 2025 → Q1 2026
Patient days do not describe acuity, boarding, assignment complexity, or conditions on a particular unit.
California Nursing ObservatoryPublic evidence for nurses
Free · IndependentUniversity Of California Davis Medical Center
Sacramento County · HCAI 106341006 · CMS 050599
Evidence statusFiling still in processWorkforce: 2024Capacity: 2025 · Quarterly context: Q1 2026
What the available records supportPatient days changed -0.0% from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026. Reported staffed beds changed from 705 to 650 (-55).
Different reporting years remain separate. This profile does not convert hospital-level filings into a judgment about a unit, shift, or patient-safety condition.
What changed—and what can we actually answer?
The useful answer is sometimes a number. Sometimes it is a clearly marked evidence gap that management should be asked to fill.
705 → 650Reported quarterly staffed beds
A percentage is deliberately withheld until the conflicting reporting scopes are reconciled.
18.9Hospital-wide RN intensity · 2024
This is not an RN-to-patient ratio, an assignment, or a unit-level workload measure. A newer comparable nursing record is needed to say whether staffing kept pace with later demand.
0.2% → 1.6%2018–2019 baseline → 2024 contract share
Contract reliance was 1.4 percentage points above the hospital’s pre-pandemic baseline. This does not measure vacancies or adequacy.
The answer the record can defend.
Recent demand and staffed-bed movement can be compared, but recent RN labor cannot.
A nurse can compare lived experience with these hospital-level signals, but the missing unit evidence still matters: assignments, acuity, charge coverage, breaks, vacancies, turnover, floating, and orientation.
Ask management: What changed in patient demand, staffed beds, and permanent RN coverage during the same reporting period?
Evidence trail and boundaries.
The reviewed pilot matched this hospital’s identity to its California facility record.
Open official facility source ↗No additional campus-specific scope note is recorded in the expansion review.
2024 productive RN hours, contract labor, and RN intensity come from the hospital financial/workforce reporting layer.
Open HCAI hospital financials ↗Q1 2025 and Q1 2026 demand and staffed-bed measures provide newer context but contain no nursing hours.
Open California health data ↗What remains unknown
Unit census, acuity, actual assignments, charge-nurse workload, breaks, overtime, vacancies, turnover, educator support, and whether any particular shift was safe.
“What changed in this hospital’s patient demand, staffed capacity, and permanent RN coverage during the same period—and what happened on my unit?”