Why is an Adelaide hospital is using hotel rooms instead of hospital beds?

One of Adelaide’s public hospitals,Modbury Hospital, is using hotel rooms instead of hospital beds for some of its patients to reduce overcrowding and to provide better care for Amputees.

Clinical Manager, Felicity Jenkinson said there was an urgent need for creative ways to offer solutions to patients and hotel room was one option.

Under the new arrangements, patients are housed in a nearby hotel’s wheelchair-accessible room with more cooking facilities than a regular hotel room.