/ en Fri, 25 Apr 2025 17:16:46 -0500 Fri, 11 Apr 25 11:12:04 -0500 Fri, 11 Apr 2025 11:12:04 -0500 Statistics /statistics/fast-facts-us-hospitals <div class="raw-html-embed"> .resource-block-header .resource-block-title small { color: black; } <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-8"> <div> <div class="data-content-section"> <div class="data-section-blurb"> <p class="text-align-center"> <strong>With 黑料正能量 Association鈥檚 rich and growing set of data, we鈥檙e empowering hospitals, health systems and their business partners to discover new directions, set strategies and plan actions for success in today鈥檚 evolving health care landscape.</strong> </p> </div> </div> <div class="data-content-section"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-6"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-5 text-align-right"> <img alt="hospital icon" src="/sites/default/files/2023-04/Hospital2_icon.png" class="align-right"> </div> <div class="col-md-7"> <p> <span>Data provided by</span> <span>over 6,200 hospitals and 400 health care systems</span> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-6"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-5 text-align-right"> <img alt="data icon" src="/sites/default/files/2023-04/Computer_Data_icon.png"> </div> <div class="col-md-7"> <p> <span>Featuring</span> <span>over 1,300 hospital data points</span> <span>directly from the source</span> </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="external-link spacer"> <a class="btn btn-wide btn-primary" href="https://www.ahadata.com" target="_blank" title="AHA Data & Insights homepage.">Learn More About AHA Data</a> </div> <div> <h2 id="datatable"> U.S. Hospital Statistics </h2> <h3> Number of Hospitals, Staffed Hospital Beds, and Admissions </h3> <div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" class="table table-bordered" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="80%"> <p> <strong>Total Number of All U.S. Hospitals</strong> </p> </td> <td> <p align="right"> 6,093 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> Number of U.S. <strong>Community</strong><sup><a href="#footnote1">1</a></sup> Hospitals </p> </td> <td> <p align="right"> 5,112 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> Number of Nongovernment Not-for-Profit Community Hospitals </p> </td> <td> <p align="right"> 2,978 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> Number of Investor-Owned (For-Profit) Community Hospitals </p> </td> <td> <p align="right"> 1,214 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> Number of State and Local Government Community Hospitals </p> </td> <td> <p align="right"> 920 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> Number of Federal Government Hospitals </p> </td> <td> <p align="right"> 207 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> Number of Nonfederal Psychiatric Hospitals </p> </td> <td> <p align="right"> 654 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> <strong>Other</strong><sup><a href="#footnote2">2</a></sup> Hospitals </p> </td> <td> <p align="right"> 120 </p> </td> </tr> <td> <p> Number of Hospital Units of Institutions<br /> (Prison Hospitals, College Infirmaries, Etc.) </p> </td> <td> <p align="right">   10  </p> </td> </tr> --> <tr> <td> <p> <strong>Total Staffed Beds in All U.S. </strong><strong>Hospitals</strong> </p> </td> <td> <p align="right"> 913,136 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> Staffed Beds in Community<sup><a href="#footnote1">1</a></sup> Hospitals </p> </td> <td> <p align="right"> 781,148 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> <strong>Total Admissions in All U.S. Hospitals</strong> </p> </td> <td> <p align="right"> 34,426,650 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> Admissions in Community<sup><a href="#footnote1">1</a></sup> Hospitals </p> </td> <td> <p align="right"> 32,345,846 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> <strong>Number of Rural Community Hospitals</strong> </p> </td> <td> <p align="right"> 1,796 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> <strong>Number of Urban Community Hospitals</strong> </p> </td> <td> <p align="right"> 3,316 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> <strong>Number of Community Hospitals in a System</strong><sup><a href="#footnote3">3</a></sup> </p> </td> <td> <p align="right"> 3,525 </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <hr> <ol> <li id="footnote1"> <strong>Community hospitals</strong> are defined as all nonfederal, short-term general, and other special hospitals. Other special hospitals include obstetrics and gynecology; eye, ear, nose, and throat; long-term acute-care; rehabilitation; orthopedic; and other individually described specialty services. Community hospitals include academic medical centers or other teaching hospitals if they are nonfederal short-term hospitals. Excluded are hospitals not accessible by the general public, such as prison hospitals or college infirmaries. </li> <li id="footnote2"> <strong>Other hospitals</strong> include nonfederal long term care hospitals and hospital units within an institution such as a prison hospital or school infirmary. Long-term care hospitals may be defined by different methods; here they include other hospitals with an average length of stay of 30 or more days. </li> <li id="footnote3"> <strong>System</strong> is defined by AHA as either a multihospital or a diversified single hospital system. A multihospital system is two or more hospitals owned, leased, sponsored, or contract managed by a central organization. Single, freestanding hospitals may be categorized as a system by bringing into membership three or more, and at least 25 percent, of their owned or leased non-hospital pre-acute or post-acute health care organizations. System affiliation does not preclude network participation. </li> </ol> <p> 漏 2025 by Health Forum LLC, an affiliate of the 黑料正能量 Association </p> <p> <em>Updated January 2025</em> </p> <hr> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-6"> <div> <a class="btn btn-wide btn-primary" href="/system/files/media/file/2025/01/Fast-Facts-on-US-Hospitals-2025.pdf" target="_blank" title="Click here to download the Fast Facts on U.S. Hospitals 2025 PDF.">Download the Fast Facts on U.S. Hospitals 2025 PDF Version</a> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-6"> <div> <a class="btn btn-wide btn-primary" href="/system/files/media/file/2025/01/Fast-Facts-on-US-Hospitals-2025-Infographics.pdf" target="_blank" title="Click here to download the Fast Facts on U.S. Hospitals, 2025 Infographic PDF.">Download the Fast Facts on U.S. Hospitals Infographics PDF</a> </div> </div> </div> <hr> <div> <p> To learn more about how to purchase a license to the most recent AHA鈥檚 Annual Survey Database, email AHA Data & Insights at <a href="mailto:ahadatainfo@aha.org?subject=Annual Survey Database Query">ahadatainfo@aha.org</a>. 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For further information, contact the AHA Resource Center at <a href="mailto:rc@aha.org?subject=Fast Facts on U.S. Hospitals, 2023">rc@aha.org</a>. </p> </div> <hr id="mapofcommunityhospitalsinus"> <p> Use the map below to find individual hospitals in the U.S. Click on the "Go to AHA Guide Profile" link in the hospital pop-up window to see how many staffed beds are in a hospital. </p> <p> <a href="/map-community-hospitals-united-states" target="_blank" title="Click here to view the interactive Map of Community Hospitals in the United States."><img data-entity-uuid data-entity-type="file" src="/sites/default/files/2025-01/Map-of-Community-Hospitals-in-the-United-States-2025.png" alt="Map of Community Hospitals in the United States 2025"></a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-4"> <div> <a class="btn btn-wide btn-primary" href="/infographics/2021-01-15-fast-facts-us-health-systems-infographic" target="_blank" title="View the Fast Facts: U.S. Health Systems 2043 Infographic">View the Fast Facts: U.S. Health Systems 2024 Infographic</a> </div> <div> <a class="btn btn-wide btn-primary" href="/infographics/2022-10-13-fast-facts-behavioral-health-infographic" target="_blank" title="Click here to download the Fast Facts: Behavioral Health 2022 Infographic PDF.">View the Fast Facts: Behavioral Health 2023 Infographic</a> </div> <div> <a class="btn btn-wide btn-primary" href="/infographics/2022-04-19-obstetrics-us-rural-hospitals-infographic" target="_blank" title="Click here to download the Obstetrics: U.S. Rural Hospitals Infographic PDF. 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The data below, from the 2017 AHA Annual Survey, are a sample of what you will find in <em>AHA Hospital Statistics</em>, 2019 edition. The definitive source for aggregate hospital data and trend analysis, <em>AHA Hospital Statistic</em>s includes current and historical data on utilization, personnel, revenue, expenses, managed care contracts, community health indicators, physician models, and much more.</p><p><em>AHA Hospital Statistics</em> is published annually by Health Forum, an affiliate of the 黑料正能量 Association. To order print copies of AHA Hospital Statistics, call (800) AHA-2626 or visit the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191113051219/https://ams.aha.org/eweb/dynamicpage.aspx?webcode=ListProduct&ptc_code=Data%20Products">AHA online store</a>. An <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191113051219/http://www.ahadata.com/aha-hospital-statistics/">interactive online version</a> is also available.</p><p><strong>NOTE: </strong>Starting with the 2019 edition of <em>AHA Hospital Statistics</em>, the AHA will no longer employ its own methodology to classify hospitals as <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191113051219//standardsguidelines/2018-02-02-registration-requirements-hospitals">registered</a>. As a result of this change, the number of hospitals in this edition of <em>Hospital Statistics</em> increased by approximately 700, with 400 of those being community hospitals.</p><p>For further information, contact the AHA Resource Center at (312) 422-2050 or <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191113051219/mailto:rc@aha.org">rc@aha.org</a>.</p></div><div class="col-md-4"><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191113051219/http://www.ahadata.com/" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/DataToolsWebAd_rev_v1.jpg" data-entity-uuid="165ffb16-fbd6-4f6e-9a5f-91e239589a9b" data-entity-type="file" alt="Learn more about our full suite of data tools. View all AHA Data & Insight Solutions." width="355" height="460"></a></p></div></div></div><div><table class="table table-bordered" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td width="80%"><p><strong>Total Number of All U.S. Hospitals</strong></p></td><td><p class="text-align-right">6,210</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of U.S. <a href="#community"><strong>Community</strong></a><sup class="text-muted"> 1</sup> Hospitals</p></td><td><p class="text-align-right">5,262</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of Nongovernment Not-for-Profit Community Hospitals</p></td><td><p class="text-align-right">2,968</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of Investor-Owned (For-Profit) Community Hospitals</p></td><td><p class="text-align-right">1,322</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of State and Local Government Community Hospitals</p></td><td><p class="text-align-right">972</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of Federal Government Hospitals</p></td><td><p class="text-align-right">208</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of Nonfederal Psychiatric Hospitals</p></td><td><p class="text-align-right">620</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><a href="#other"><strong>Other</strong></a><sup class="text-muted"> 2</sup> Hospitals</p></td><td><p class="text-align-right">120</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total Staffed Beds in All U.S. Hospitals</strong></p></td><td><p class="text-align-right">931,203</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Staffed Beds in Community<sup class="text-muted"> 1</sup> Hospitals</p></td><td><p class="text-align-right">798,921</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total Admissions in All U.S. Hospitals</strong></p></td><td><p class="text-align-right">36,510,207</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Admissions in Community<sup class="text-muted"> 1</sup> Hospitals</p></td><td><p class="text-align-right">34,305,620</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total Expenses for All U.S. Hospitals</strong></p></td><td><p class="text-align-right">$1,060,933,249,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Expenses for Community<sup class="text-muted"> 1</sup> Hospitals</p></td><td><p class="text-align-right">$966,204,239,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Number of Rural Community</strong><sup class="text-muted"> </sup><strong>Hospitals</strong></p></td><td><p class="text-align-right">1,875</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Number of Urban Community</strong><sup class="text-muted"> </sup><strong>Hospitals</strong></p></td><td><p class="text-align-right">3,387</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Number of Community Hospitals in a </strong><a href="#system"><strong>System</strong></a><sup class="text-muted"> 3</sup></p></td><td><p class="text-align-right">3,494</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Number of Community Hospitals in a </strong><a href="#network"><strong>Network</strong></a><sup class="text-muted"> 4</sup></p></td><td><p class="text-align-right">1,749</p></td></tr></tbody> <td> <p> Number of Hospital Units of Institutions<br /> (Prison Hospitals, College Infirmaries, Etc.) </p> </td> <td> <p align="right">   10  </p> </td> </tr> --></table></div><div><p><sup>1 </sup><strong>Community</strong> <strong>hospitals </strong>are defined as all nonfederal, short-term general, and other special hospitals. Other special hospitals include obstetrics and gynecology; eye, ear, nose, and throat; long term acute-care; rehabilitation; orthopedic; and other individually described specialty services. Community hospitals include academic medical centers or other teaching hospitals if they are nonfederal short-term hospitals.  Excluded are hospitals not accessible by the general public, such as prison hospitals or college infirmaries.</p><p><sup>2 </sup><strong>Other hospitals </strong>include nonfederal long term care hospitals and hospital units within an institution such as a prison hospital or school infirmary. Long term care hospitals may be defined by different methods; here they include other hospitals with an average length of stay of 30 or more days.</p><p><sup>3 </sup><strong>System</strong> is defined by AHA as either a multihospital or a diversified single hospital system. A multihospital system is two or more hospitals owned, leased, sponsored, or contract managed by a central organization. Single, freestanding hospitals may be categorized as a system by bringing into membership three or more, and at least 25 percent, of their owned or leased non-hospital preacute or postacute health care organizations. System affiliation does not preclude network participation.</p><p><sup>4 </sup><strong>Network</strong> is a group of hospitals, physicians, other providers, insurers and/or community agencies that work together to coordinate and deliver a broad spectrum of services to their community.</p><p>漏 2019 by Health Forum LLC, an affiliate of the 黑料正能量 Association</p><p><em>Updated January 2019</em></p></div><hr><div> <div class="tableauPlaceholder"> </div> </div> <div class="tablet"> <div class="tableauPlaceholder"> </div> </div> <div class="mobile"> <div class="tableauPlaceholder"> </div> </div> --> </div> Tue, 07 Jan 2020 13:57:51 -0600 Statistics /statistics/2018-06-06-hospitals-are-economic-drivers-their-communities-2018 <p>The health care sector has traditionally been an economic mainstay, providing stability and job growth in communities.</p> <p>Hospital care is an important component of the health care sector. Hospitals:</p> <ul> <li>Employ nearly 5.9 million people.</li> <li>Are one of the top sources of private-sector jobs.</li> <li>Purchase $903 billion in goods and services from other businesses.</li> </ul> <p>The goods and services hospitals purchase from other businesses create additional economic value for the community. With these 鈥渞ipple effects鈥� included, each hospital job supports about two additional jobs, and every dollar spent by a hospital supports roughly $2.30 of additional business activity. Overall, hospitals:</p> <ul> <li>Support 16.5 million total jobs, or one of 9 jobs, in the U.S.</li> <li>Support almost $3.0 trillion in economic activity.</li> </ul> <hr> <p><img alt="Hospitals directly employ nearly 5.9 million people infographic" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="e0c922fc-8b9f-4cbb-8a18-753bc637a8b8" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/Hospitals-directly-employ-nearly-5_9-million-people-Infographic.jpg" width="990" height="1474"></p> Wed, 06 Jun 2018 12:41:37 -0500 Statistics /statistics/2018-03-29-hospitals-are-economic-anchors-their-communities <p>In 2015, America鈥檚 hospitals treated 142 million people in their emergency departments, provided 581 million outpatient visits, performed almost 27 million surgeries and delivered nearly 4 million babies. Every year, hospitals provide vital health care services like these to hundreds of millions of people in thousands of communities. However, the importance of hospitals to their communities extends far beyond health care.</p><p>The health care sector has traditionally been an economic mainstay, providing stability and job growth in communities. Health care added more than 35,000 jobs per month in 2016.<a href="#fn1"><sup>1</sup></a></p><p>Hospital care is an important component of the health care sector. Hospitals:</p><ul><li>Employ more than 5.7 million people.</li><li>Are one of the top sources of private-sector jobs.</li><li>Purchase nearly $852 billion in goods and services from other businesses.</li></ul><p>The goods and services hospitals purchase from other businesses create additional economic value for the community. With these 鈥渞ipple effects鈥� included, each hospital job supports about two additional jobs, and every dollar spent by a hospital supports roughly $2.30 of additional business activity. Overall, hospitals:</p><ul><li>Support 16 million total jobs, or one of 9 jobs, in the U.S.</li><li>Support more than $2.8 trillion in economic activity.</li></ul><p><img src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/Hospitals-directly-employ-over-5-7-million-people.png" data-entity-uuid="aae2e0ae-ad8e-49f4-879a-9c139871d6bd" data-entity-type="file" alt="Hospitals directly employ over 5.7 million people." width="100%" height="100%"></p><hr><ol><li id="fn1">Bureau of Labor Statistics. Current Employment Statistics Highlights, December 2016.></li></ol> Thu, 29 Mar 2018 09:51:40 -0500 Statistics /statistics/2018-01-09-fast-facts-us-hospitals-2018-pie-charts Tue, 09 Jan 2018 08:22:16 -0600 Statistics /statistics/2016-12-09-fast-facts-us-hospitals-2017-pie-charts <strong>Pie Charts of Fast Facts - Click on pie chart for pdf print file.</strong></p> <p><a href="/research/rc/stat-studies/pie chart 1 2017.pdf"><img alt="" data-entity-type="" data-entity-uuid="" src="/research/rc/stat-studies/pie chart1 2017.jpg" /></a></p> <p><a href="/research/rc/stat-studies/pie chart2 2017.pdf"><img alt="" data-entity-type="" data-entity-uuid="" src="/research/rc/stat-studies/pie chart2 2017.jpg" /></a></p> <p><a href="/research/rc/stat-studies/pie chart 3 2017.pdf"><strong><img alt="" data-entity-type="" data-entity-uuid="" src="/research/rc/stat-studies/pie chart3 2017.jpg" /></strong></a></p> <p><strong><a href="/research/rc/stat-studies/pie chart4 2017.pdf"><img alt="" data-entity-type="" data-entity-uuid="" src="/research/rc/stat-studies/pie chart4 2017.jpg" /></a></strong></p> <p> </p>--> Fri, 09 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600 Statistics /2006-01-12-statistics-and-studies <h4><a href="https://guide.aha.org/guide/">AHA Guide</a></h4> <h4><a href="https://guide.aha.org/stats/">AHA Hospital Statistics</a></h4> <h4><a href="/system/files/media/file/2021/10/Chart-of-Accounts-for-Hospitals-1976-ed.pdf" target="_blank">Chart of Accounts for Hospitals</a> (AHA, 1976) 鈥� No longer published by AHA</h4> Thu, 12 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0600 Statistics