A Look at Health Care Buildings
How large are they?
Are they on multibuilding complexes?
How do they use energy and how much does it cost?
How large are they?
The average health care building is 22,200 square feet. Inpatient health care buildings are much larger than outpatient health care—an average of 74,600 for inpatient versus 8,300 for outpatient.
There is 2.3 billion square feet of floorspace used for health care purposes, which is 4 percent of all commercial floorspace in the U.S. Inpatient health care accounts for 1.6 billion square feet and outpatient health care for 0.7 billion square feet.
Over half of all health care buildings are less than 5,000 square feet; about 6 percent are over 100,000 square feet. Slightly less than half of all health care buildings have only one floor; 9 percent have four or more floors, more than most building types.
The number of beds in the building was collected for inpatient health care only. One percent of the sampled health care buildings did not report this number, but for those that did, the average is 79 beds per building. In medium-sized (5,001 to 50,000 square feet) health care buildings the average is 38 beds; in large (over 50,000 square feet) health care buildings, the average is 222 beds.
Table 1: Number and percent of health care buildings by size category and number of floors
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Specific questions may be directed to:
Joelle Davis Michaels
joelle.michaels@eia.doe.gov
CBECS Manager
URL: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/consumptionbriefs/cbecs/pbawebsite/health/health_howlarge.htm
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date: September 11, 2000
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last modified: January 3, 2001