Surge Capacity of Taipei’s Regional Emergency Medical System during COVID-19: A System Dynamics Approach

Table 1

Availability of physicians, nurses, and various types of hospital beds in Taipei’s regional emergency medical system.

Total number of internal medicine physicians	2,394
Acute care beds	12,051
Acute economy beds	154
Acute general psychiatric beds	841
Acute economy psychiatric beds	12
Acute intensive care beds	1,861
Acute burn beds	50
Burn intensive care beds	38
Infant patient beds	327
Beds for infants with moderate to critical illness	44
Negative pressure isolation beds	367
Positive pressure isolation beds	37
General isolation beds	161
Subacute ventilators care beds	199
Chronic ventilators care beds	445
Hospice beds	178
Total number of nurses	29,659
Isolation beds for acute bone marrow transplant	27
Psychiatric outpatient ward	185
Nuclear medicine beds	13
Acute copayment beds (single)	1,857
Acute copayment beds (double)	4,528
Single psychiatric beds (copayment required)	40
Hospice beds (copayment fee required)	85
Chronic care patient beds	146
Chronic care copayment beds (single)	35
Chronic care copayment beds (double)	56
ER observation beds	858
Hemodialysis beds	1,575
Infant cribs	419
Surgical recovery beds	385