Heard on the news today:

Your average outpatient today would have been hospitalized in the 1970s. Today's average inpatient would have been in ICU. Today's ICU patient in the 1970s would have been dead.

The discussion centered around the current nursing shortage in the USA. According to this woman in her sixties -- I don't remember her name -- the current ratio is something like 7 or 8 patients per nurse, varying a little better during the day and a bit worse at night. California controversial law, apparently, mandates a minimum 1:5 ratio for nurses to patients in medical/surgical, and 1:2 in ICU.