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Wooster Community Hospital projects higher volume, readies new ER; warns of near-term staffing and vendor costs
Summary
Hospital presenter Jason Rohrer told the finance committee the hospital’s 2026 budget assumes a 2.5% rise in acute admissions, an 11.3% increase in ER visits tied to a new emergency center, and material staffing and vendor cost increases that together drive several-million-dollar shifts in the P&L.
Jason Rohrer, who presented the Wooster Community Hospital portion of the 2026 budget as the hospital’s finance presenter and a candidate for CFO, told the finance committee the hospital expects higher patient volumes next year as it brings a new emergency center online.
Rohrer said the packet’s service-and-demand assumptions show a projected 2.5% increase in acute inpatient admissions and an 11.3% jump in emergency-department visits. “We’re projecting, 11.3 percent based on a lot of the information that we’ve reviewed,” Rohrer said, adding that new ER openings often generate 15%–30% initial increases but the hospital is using a conservative 11% estimate for budgeting.
Those volumes feed both inpatient growth and outpatient lines. Rohrer reported an average inpatient length of stay of about 3.2 days and an adjusted patient-day projection of just over 76,000 for 2026.…
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