Having trouble understanding how to calculate ALOS

Community Hospital

Discharge List

November 23, 20XX

Pt. Name	Age	Clinical Service	Admission Date	Length of Stay
Anderson	72	Medicine	11/18
Bretz	43	Surgery	9/19
Clemments	32	Obstetrics	11/21
Dimmick	25	Obstetrics	11/20
Erichson	98	Medicine	9/1
Frye	67	Medicine	8/12
Grell	43	Surgery	9/2
Hallbauer	15	Obstetrics	11/19
Imel	33	Medicine	11/17
Jordan	51	Medicine	11/16
Kirkpatrick	23	Obstetrics	11/22
Locke	57	Surgery	10/3
Miller	48	Surgery	10/31
Nickel	59	Medicine	11/4
Oller	63	Medicine	11/9
Smith	69	Surgery	11/17
Total

Using the report below from University Hospital for October 20XX, calculate (round to one decimal place) the ALOS for each service.

University Hospital

May 20XX

Clinical Units	Discharges	Discharge Days	ALOS
Surgery	1,578	8,627
Medicine	1,488	7,852
Neurology	875	4,285
Oncology	1,005	18,588
Obstetrics/Gynecology	564	1,479
Opthalmology	585	1,154
Orthopedics	751	9,321
Pediatrics	558	2,841
Psychiatry/Human Behavior	256	4,697
Rehabilitation	345	8,057
Urology	76	183
Total

Using the table below, calculate (round to one decimal place) the ALOS for newborns in each month and then compute the annual ALOS.

University Hospital

Annual Newborn Discharge Statistics

20XX

Month	Newborn Discharges	Discharge Days	Newborn ALOS
January	105	238
February	135	348
March	123	347
April	150	540
May	142	454
June	142	369
July	186	616
August	189	429
September	217	601
October	215	555
November	158	501
December	135	405
Total