Management consultants decided that an average bed occupancy rate of 65 per cent was inefficient and costly.

These policies are likely to incur greater costs to the health and social care services in the length of bed occupancy and rehabilitation needs over the longer term.

Bed occupancy runs at over 100% when more than one patient uses the bed during a 24-hour period.

Hospitals were well above the 85 per cent bed occupancy level considered safe, with a national average of 91.7 per cent last week.

The average bed occupancy in general and acute hospitals was 94.4 per cent over the winter.

A priority for him will be to bring occupancy levels back-up to the key 90% level or forecasts could be squeezed in 2009.

With occupancy levels in severe decline, the big chains are desperate to keep their hotels full.

However, net asset value rose by 4p and occupancy levels increased 1.6 per cent.

It appeals to a more mature customer base, which has largely been happy to continue spending, so occupancy levels have held up.

Occupancy levels at the end of the year were approaching 90 per cent.

At that point, the food court had no tenants and the mall was only at 70 percent occupancy.

The 12-story, 367-bed hospital had 78 physicians on the medical staff and enough staff to care for an 85 percent occupancy rate.

It was running for 85 to 90 percent occupancy in multiplexes.

It made three trips in each direction per week during the summer season, and achieved an 84 percent occupancy rate.

The complex maintained 95 percent occupancy through the mid-1970s and employed 25,000 people.