Company: UHS
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-027785
Chunk: 117

Company: UNIVERSAL HEALTH SERVICES INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1B
Chunk 117
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 increase was due primarily to the above-mentioned $43 million increase related to our acute care hospital services, on a Same Facility basis.  

Please see Results of Operations - Clinical Staffing, Physician Related Expenses and Effects of Inflation above for additional disclosure regarding the factors impacting our operating costs. 

Behavioral Health Care Services

The following table sets forth certain operating statistics for our behavioral health care services for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023. 

    Same Facility Basis

    All

    2024

    2023

    2024

    2023

    Average licensed beds
     
    24,165

    24,000

    24,367

    24,224

    Average available beds
     
    24,065

    23,900

    24,280

    24,124

    Patient days
     
    6,397,790

    6,277,015

    6,446,651

    6,336,927

    Average daily census
     
    17,480.3

    17,197.3

    17,613.8

    17,361.4

    Occupancy-licensed beds
     
    72.3
    %

    71.7
    %

    72.3
    %

    71.7
    %

    Occupancy-available beds
     
    72.6
    %

    72.0
    %

    72.5
    %

    72.0
    %

    Admissions
     
    472,798

    468,260

    476,584

    472,307

    Length of stay
     
    13.5

    13.4

    13.5

    13.4

Behavioral Health Care Services-Same Facility Basis

We believe that providing our results on a “Same Facility” basis (which is a non-GAAP measure), which includes the operating results for facilities and businesses operated in both the current year and prior year periods, is helpful to our investors as a measure of our operating performance. Our Same Facility results also neutralize (if applicable) the effect of items that are non-operational in nature including items such as, but not limited to, gains/losses on sales of assets and businesses