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About Hospital Capacity Management Consortium (HCMC)

Effective management of hospital capacity is critical to patient safety, patient satisfaction, access to care, and reducing the cost of health care. The Hospital Capacity Management Consortium’s mission is to use science and collaboration to ensure patients receive acute care in the right place at the right time. HCMC is a personal membership group of the American Hospital Association (AHA), consisting of a collaborative group of hospitals, healthcare systems, industry partners, and other stakeholders with an interest in improving hospital capacity management. Through innovation, cooperation, and academic inquiry, HCMC strives to improve the efficiency of acute care capacity management so that all patients are safely and efficiently able to receive acute care in the best location possible. HCMC formed in 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hospitals and health systems were struggling to find ventilators for critical patients, personal protective equipment was in short supply and hospitals were at and over their bed capacity. Systems had to come up with effective ways to allocate appropriate resources to the most acute patients. The pandemic spotlighted a need for a more streamlined approach.