SPMHS Inpatient Admission Rates
The following summarises inpatient admission information including gender ratios, age and length of stay distributions (LOS) across the hospital’s three approved centres; SPUH, SEH and WGAU for 2016.
The table below shows inpatient admission numbers and the percentage rates for Male and Female admissions. In 2016, 62.4% of admissions across all three Approved Centres were female, compared to 60.4% in 2015 and 62.3% in 2014.
| No. of Admissions (% of Admissions) 2016 | ||||
| SEH | SPUH | WGAU | Total | |
| Female | 364 (71.5%) | 1,463 (60.0%) | 63 (78.8%) | 1,890 (62.4%) |
| Male | 145 (28.5%) | 976 (40.0%) | 17 (21.2%) | 1,138 (37.6%) |
| Total | 509 (100%) | 2,439 (100%) | 80 (100%) | 3,028 (100%) |
The table below shows the average age of service users admitted across the 3 Approved centres was 50.45 years in 2016. This compares to 48.58 years in 2015. The average age of adolescents admitted to WGAU was 15.92 years as compared with 15.44 years in 2015. The average age of adults admitted to SEH was 54.87 years in 2016 & 54.69 years in 2015. Finally, the average age of adults admitted to SPUH was 50.66 years in 2016 compared with 48.57 years in 2015.
| Average Age at Admission 2016 | |||||
| SEH | SPUH | Total Adult | WGAU | Total | |
| Female | 55.42 | 51.8 | 52.52 | 15.89 | 51.3 |
| Male | 53.5 | 48.95 | 49.53 | 16.03 | 49.03 |
| Total | 54.87 | 50.66 | 51.38 | 15.92 | 50.45 |
Up until 1 April 2016, St Edmundsbury Hospital functioned with 50 inpatient beds at which stage 2 additional beds were added to increase bed capacity at SEH from 50 to 52