UnknownNo reviewed recent same-quarter demand comparison
Patient days do not describe acuity, boarding, assignment complexity, or conditions on a particular unit.
California Nursing ObservatoryPublic evidence for nurses
Free · IndependentSharp Memorial Hospital
San Diego County · HCAI 106370694
Evidence statusAudited filingWorkforce: 2024Capacity: 2025
What the available records supportA reviewed 2024 nursing snapshot and 2025 capacity record are available. A defensible recent demand trend is not.
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.
53.6%Reported staffed share of licensed beds · 2025
A staffed-bed measure is not a vacancy count and does not identify which units were open.
19.2Hospital-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.
2.1% → 0.9%2018–2019 baseline → 2024 contract share
Contract reliance was 1.2 percentage points below the hospital’s pre-pandemic baseline. This does not measure vacancies or adequacy.
The answer the record can defend.
The available profile is a reviewed snapshot—not yet a full year-over-year hospital reconstruction.
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 862-bed reporting total reconciles exactly to Sharp Memorial Hospital (656 licensed beds) plus Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns (206 licensed beds), which California HCAI identifies as consolidated.
Open official facility source ↗Workforce and capacity values represent the combined 862-bed reporting scope, not Sharp Memorial’s 656-bed campus alone.
Open supporting facility record ↗2024 productive RN hours, contract labor, and RN intensity come from the hospital financial/workforce reporting layer.
Open HCAI hospital financials ↗The 2025 capacity layer supplies licensed, available, and staffed bed counts but not unit-level operations.
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?”