31.   We are seeing an increased demand for hospital beds.

32.   Lucy was propped on pillows in the narrow hospital bed, holding the tiny night-gowned bundle in the crook of her arm.

33.   CRITICALLY ill patients are being moved from one hospital to another in a desperate search for hospital beds, a medical expert revealed yesterday.

34.   One revealed Pringle, who cannot talk because of his injuries, wrote a note from his hospital bed.

35.   Almost a decade after problems surfaced for the elderly, government agencies are still debating what to do about hospital beds and even who bears the responsibility for them.

36.   An abundance of hospital beds also may lead to patients getting more care than they need.

37.   An emaciated boy named Michael sits in a hospital bed, intently playing a video game.

38.   And Adriana realized that life can end without notice or fanfare in a sterile hospital bed without time to say goodbye.

39.   And Livia continues to spew repulsive self-pity from her hospital bed.

40.   And yet a third of the hospital beds are empty, and even many of those that are not full are expanding and building.