"The number of beds in the hospital" is short-hand for the number of attended beds. The actual limit here is doctors and nurses, not the physical number of bed

"The number of beds in the hospital" is short-hand for the number of attended beds. The actual limit here is doctors and nurses, not the physical number of beds. It's easy to get more beds in an emergency (go to Ikea; I'm not joking). Not so easy to get more trained medical staff.