For acute hospitals, funding is essentially based on patient-related activity: a “justified activity”For acute hospitals, funding is essentially based on patient-related activity: a “justified activity”is determined, hospital by hospital. The activity of each hospital is therefore defined according tothe number and type of admissions for a reference year. Each person admitted is granted a lengthof stay justified according to their pathology. The total number of justified hospital days is dividedby a normative occupancy rate multiplied by 365 to obtain a justified number of hospital beds.