Monday marks the fourth anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring that the spread of the novel coronavirus had evolved into a pandemic. Those who manage hospitals and health clinics are still dealing with patient population numbers that never returned to normal. “We all expected patient volumes to go back to pre-Covid levels. And we thought that we were going to get a break,” Amanda Mewborn, group vice president for Advocate Health Group, said at Bisnow's Atlanta Healthcare and Life Sciences Summit last month. “Unfortunately, that’s not what we’ve seen.” 
Hospital bed occupancy nationwide has been above 70% every week since at least October 2022, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Georgia's hospitals have been slightly fuller than the national average, at nearly 79% in March, compared to 77% across the U.S.Elevated patient levels are… Read the full story here. | 
