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There is a national narrative that hospital and health system patient volumes have seen large increases and now exceed pre-pandemic levels. While this is not true in Kentucky, other emerging trends are straining the capacity of hospital services. Hospitals provide an array of services, treating patients in a wide range of settings and for many disparate clinical conditions.