Universal Health Services has been seeing a high demand for health care services, even though it has also had to turn away some of that demand due to behavioral workforce shortages, reports Behavioral Health Business.
Although bed capacity is on the rise for UHS, the hospital operator believes there is more room for improvement on the behavioral front.
UHS has been adding 300 or 400 beds a year for the last 15 years. Headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, UHS operates over 300 facilities across 38 U.S. mainland states and Alaska, as well as in Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom.
UHS’s most recent growth has come about through joint ventures with acute care providers. Read more.