OPS.10:5.3 - Nominal beds and qualified capacity

A hospital’s bed count is not the capacity for every care requirement. The receiving question may depend on the supplied clinical class, staffing qualification, equipment, cleaning readiness, access and synchronized availability.

OPS.10 can compare operating arrangements from those qualified inputs and state a resource-time or scenario result. If the clinical eligibility or staffing Method is missing, it returns that exact input. It does not invent a clinical staffing ratio or treat every empty bed as usable service capacity.