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Evaluation and Performance Measures:
8.0 Surge Capacity Measures


Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement (Updated June 2023)


Operational Intent: These performance measures examine how activities have been implemented to achieve the following outcome:

  • Increase the numbers of patient care beds to provide surge capacity

8.1 Required Surge Capacity Measures


Program Performance Measure
 Data Point
 Data Entity and Timing
 Calculation
PM 25: Percent increase in
staffed patient beds per subrecipient with Hospital
Association COVID-19
Preparedness and Response
Activities Cooperative
Agreement funding
a) Number of staffed beds
(both acute care and ICU)
before increasing bed
capacity with Hospital
Association COVID-19
Preparedness and Response
Activities Cooperative
Agreement funds (during
the period of performance,
April 10, 2022 to April 9,
2023).

(b) Number of staffed beds
(both acute care and ICU) after
use of Hospital Association
COVID-19 Preparedness and
Response Activities Cooperative
Agreement funds to increase
bed capacity (during the period
of performance, April 10, 2022
to April 9, 2023).

Sub-recipient

(collected at
end of project
year)

Percent increase in
staffed patient
beds = ((b-a)/a) * 1 00%






Hospital Association COVID-19 Activities CoAg Performance Measures June 2023
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