As of December 2023, the biggest hospital in the United States was based in Florida. With 2,247 beds, AdventHealth Orlando was ranked as the largest hospital in the U.S. according to its number of beds. Second largest hospital was Yale New Haven in Connecticut.

As of 2024, the Hospital Corporation of America, based in Nashville, Tennessee, was the largest health system in the United States, with a total of 41,694 hospital beds. HCA Healthcare is also the largest U.S. health system when ranked by the number of hospitals and net patient revenue. Altogether, the largest 10 healthcare systems or integrated delivery networks (IDNs) cover 1,210 hospital and over 185,000 hospital beds. Most of these health systems are non-profit organizations.

As of 2022, the largest hospital in the world was found in Henan, China. With seven thousand beds, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University was ranked as the largest hospital globally according to its number of beds. The second largest hospital was also found in China. No U.S. hospital made the world top 20 list, although AdventHealth Orlando was close, being the largest hospital in the United States.

As of 2022, Kaiser Permanente, based in Oakland, California, was the largest health system in the United States when ranked by the number of physicians affiliated with the system. It had over 25 thousand physicians affiliated with the organization. Meanwhile, the Hospital Corporation of America, based in Nashville, Tennessee, was in third place, but was the largest health system in the United States when ranked by the number of hospitals. HCA Healthcare is also the largest U.S. health system when ranked by the number of beds and, as expected, by net patient revenue.

This statistic shows the number of all hospitals in the United States from 1975 to 2022. In 1975, there were 7,156 hospitals in the United States, whereas in 2022, there were only 6,120 hospitals.

Hospitals in the United States

Hospitals are healthcare institutions which provide treatment for patients and are one of the most important cornerstones of every modern healthcare system. In these facilities, specialized staff and equipment give the best possible care to patients. In the United States, most of the hospitals are non-profit facilities, while the rest are divided into for-profit or state/local government hospitals. Hospitals can be funded by several sources: the public sector, health organizations of all kinds, health insurance companies, charities, etc. Hospitals can often trace their roots back to religious orders or were founded by charitable individual sponsors.

The number of hospitals in the U.S. has shown a steady decline since 1975. Hence, the number of hospital beds have also been decreasing, standing at 916,752 in 2022, a number that is significantly lower than the 1.5 million beds that were counted in 1975. In the United States, some 33.7 million hospital admissions were reported in 2022.

It is a small wonder that hospital costs make up a large portion of total U.S. healthcare expenditure. Roughly one third of the total healthcare costs were attributed to U.S. hospital care.

The number of hospital beds in the United States was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2029 by in total 16.6 thousand beds (+1.75 percent). After the fifteenth consecutive increasing year, the number of hospital beds is estimated to reach 967.9 thousand beds and therefore a new peak in 2029. Notably, the number of hospital beds of was continuously increasing over the past years.Depicted is the estimated total number of hospital beds in the country or region at hand.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).Find more key insights for the number of hospital beds in countries like Mexico and Canada.

This statistic depicts a ranking of the top 10 U.S. nonprofit hospital operators based on number of hospitals as of December 2015. At this point, Ascension Health, based in St. Louis, Missouri, was ranked first in the United States, with a total of 76 hospitals.

The average number of hospital beds available per 1,000 people in the United States was forecast to continuously decrease between 2024 and 2029 by in total 0.1 beds (-3.7 percent). After the eighth consecutive decreasing year, the number of available beds per 1,000 people is estimated to reach 2.63 beds and therefore a new minimum in 2029. Depicted is the number of hospital beds per capita in the country or region at hand. As defined by World Bank this includes inpatient beds in general, specialized, public and private hospitals as well as rehabilitation centers.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).Find more key insights for the average number of hospital beds available per 1,000 people in countries like Canada and Mexico.

With over 6,500 medical centers, Brazil was the Latin American country with the highest number of hospitals in 2024, among the countries depicted. Mexico ranked second, with 3,587 hospitals. In 2022, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein was the leading hospital by quality in the South American country. Healthcare spending With an estimated 11 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) being spent on health, Cuba was the nation with the highest health expenditure share in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2020. Ranking second in this ranking along with Argentina, Brazil’s government spent more than 46 percent of its annual health expenditure on hospital and outpatient care. Meanwhile, in Chile, government spending on healthcare was, on average, about 1,679 U.S. dollars per person in 2021, which was more than the combined health expenditure from government and out-of-pocket spending in Mexico. Leading medical technology Including products such as diagnostic imaging, implants, and vaccines, nanomedicine has by far been Latin America’s most valuable medical technology, generating an estimated 19.36 billion U.S. dollars in 2022. Furthermore, the revenue of nanomedicine in the region is expected to reach 37.45 billion U.S. dollars by 2027, representing an increase of more than 94 percent over a span of five years.More information by Global Health Intelligence on hospital infrastructure in various Latin American countries can be found here.

In 2018, the North Texas State Hospital in Wichita Falls, Texas had the highest number of acute-care beds among the largest behavioral health hospitals in the United States. This statistic illustrates the largest U.S behavioral health hospitals by the total acute-care beds in 2018.

This statistic depicts a ranking of the top 10 largest U.S. for-profit hospitals based on the number of beds as of February 2024. At this point, the Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, was ranked first among such hospitals in the United States, with a total of 1,831 beds. The top three largest for-profit hospitals were all in Texas.

According to a hospital ranking carried out in 2022 and based on seven different dimensions, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein was considered the hospital with the highest care quality in Latin America. Located in São Paulo - Brazil, this health institution reached a quality index score of 93.46. Hospital Sírio-Libanês also located in Brazil, ranked second, with a score of 71.75. Latin American hospitals and their capacity to host patients When it comes to hosting patients, hospitals Irmandade da Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre located in Brazil, and Sanatorio Guemes based in Argentina, ranked among the leading hospitals in Latin America as of 2022. It was estimated that Brazil and Argentina were the two Latin American countries with the highest number of hospital beds in the region in 2020, with more than 448,000 and 234,000 hospital beds, respectively. Public opinion on healthcare quality It was also Argentina that had the highest share of satisfied patients among a selection of countries in Latin America according to a 2023 survey, with 50 percent of interviewees stating they had accessed a good or very good healthcare service. Colombian patients followed, with four out of ten people satisfied with the healthcare received. Accordingly, a recent study estimated that nearly half of the population in Argentina and Colombia distrusted the healthcare system, with approximately 47 percent and 50 percent of respondents claiming they trust the health systems in their respective countries.

As of 2016, the top U.S. hospital for child birth is Northside Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. All hospitals are required, by law, to report and provide access to birth records through the federal National Vital Statistics system. The U.S. system of reporting births (and deaths) is funded by individual States as well as through the National Center for Health Statistics.

Georgia birth data

Georgia is one of the most populous states in the United States. The metropolitan area with the highest birth rate in the U.S. was Hinesville, Georgia. Hinesville is located in the south eastern section of the state of Georgia. Despite having the hospital that delivers the most babies in the U.S., Georgia does not have one of highest birth rates in the U.S. As of 2017, Utah had the highest birth rate in the United States.

Birth-related developments

The number of U.S. births has remained relatively stable since 1990. Despite having a relatively stable birth rate, the number bassinet available in U.S. hospitals is on the decline. Birth rates, however, show variation among different U.S. populations. Mothers of American Indian or Alaska Native descent tend to have higher birth rates than other ethnicities.

In 2022, there were over 33.7 million hospital admissions in the United States. The number of hospitals in the U.S. has decreased in recent years, although the country faces an increasing elder population. Predictably, the elderly account for the largest share of hospital admissions in the U.S.

Hospital stays

Stays in hospitals are more common among females than males, with around 7.2 percent of females reporting one or more hospital stays in the past year, compared to 4.8 percent of males. Furthermore, 16.6 percent of those aged 65 years and older had a hospitalization in the past year, compared to just 6.6 percent of those aged 18 to 44 years. The average length of a stay in a U.S. hospital is 5.7 days.

Hospital beds

In 2022, there were 916,752 hospital beds in the U.S. In the past few years, there has been a decrease in the number of hospital beds available. This is unsurprising given the decrease in the number of overall hospitals. In 2021, the occupancy rate of hospitals in the U.S. was 65 percent.

Trends indicate that the overall number of hospital beds in the U.S. is decreasing. In 1975, there were about 1.5 million hospital beds in the country. Despite fluctuations, by 2022 there were just 916,752 hospital beds in the U.S. There is a growing trend towards consumer use of outpatient services, which tend to be less costly for patients. This may be only one reason why hospital bed numbers are decreasing in the United States.

Hospital occupancy

Despite seeing a decrease in the number of hospital beds in the U.S., hospital occupancy rate has also generally decreased compared to 1975. The number of hospital admissions, on the other hand, has been fluctuating.

Hospital costs

Costs also may be an important factor in the reduction of number of hospital beds in the U.S., however, costs do not appear to be on the decline. Inpatient stays in U.S. community hospitals has been steadily increasing. In fact, the United States has the highest daily hospital costs in the world. While hospital costs depend heavily on the condition that is being treated, the U.S. had consistently the highest costs for inpatient treatments such as a hip replacement, or a coronary bypass surgery.

Hospital care expenditure in the United States has grown dramatically over the past six decades, reaching a staggering 1.5 trillion U.S. dollars in 2023. This figure represents a significant portion of the nation's total health care spending, highlighting the crucial role hospitals play in the American healthcare system. Despite the increasing expenditure, the number of hospitals and hospital beds in the country has been declining. Declining hospital numbers While hospital care expenditure has surged, the number of hospitals in the United States has decreased steadily since 1975. In 2022, there were 6,120 hospitals in the country, down from 7,156 in 1975. This reduction in facilities has been accompanied by a parallel decrease in hospital beds, with only 916,752 beds available in 2022 compared to approximately 1.5 million in 1975. The decline in hospital infrastructure occurs despite a growing and aging population. Hospital care in national health expenditure Hospital care consistently accounts for the largest share of national health care expenditure in the United States. In 2023, 31.2 percent of the total 4.9 trillion U.S. dollars spent on health care was allocated to hospital care. This proportion far exceeds other categories of health care spending, such as physician and clinical services, which accounted for around 20 percent of total expenditure.

This graph shows the leading 10 hospitals in the U.S. based on number of full-time employees, as of June 2016. Vanderbilt University Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, had the most full-time employees with 23,705, followed by Cleveland Clinic Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, with 22,346.

In 2022, there were 5,129 community hospitals (general acute care) in the United States. The largest portion of these hospitals were non-profit, while only around 24 percent were for-profit. In recent years, there has been a decrease in the number of hospitals in the U.S. It is difficult to compare data from before 2017 due to methodology differences. However, the general trend is downwards, with the exception of for-profit hospitals. There has been an increase in for-profit community hospitals in the last two decades. Hospital beds There are currently around 916,752 hospital beds in the U.S. Unsurprisingly, just as the number of hospitals in the U.S. has decreased in recent years, so has the number of hospital beds. In 1995, there were still over one million hospital beds. In 2019, large hospitals, those with 500 or more beds, had a combined 248 thousand beds available. Hospital stays In 2019, around 7.3 percent of the U.S. population reported one or more hospitals stays in the past year. Hospital stays are more common among females than males, however both genders have seen decreasing rates in hospital stays in the past few years. The average length of stay in U.S. hospitals is 5.7 days.

This statistic shows the number of beds in the top 10 hospitals for adult cardiology and heart surgery in the United States, as of 2017, according to the latest U.S. News Best Hospitals report. The highest number of beds among the top 10 adult cardiology hospitals was in the New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell with 2,381 beds in total within this specialty.

The U.S. hospital with the most emergency department visits in 2022 was Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas, followed by Lakeland Regional Medical Center in Lakeland, Florida. In 2022, Parkland Health and Hospital System recorded 226,178 emergency room visits, while Lakeland Regional Medical Center received 199,927. Both hospitals saw an increase in emergency room visits compared to the previous year and both hospitals remained top of the list in both years.

U.S. Hospitals

There are various types of hospitals in the U.S. that supply numerous services. Hospitals can be broken into the categories: community hospitals, federal government hospitals, psychiatric care hospitals and long-term care hospitals. Some hospitals provide further specializations such as trauma care or paediatrics. The total number of hospitals in the U.S. continuously been decreasing since the 1970s. In general, non-federal hospitals make up the majority of hospitals.

Emergency departments

Recent estimates indicate that among adults the age groups with the highest prevalence of emergency room visits were among those aged 18-29 years and those aged 50-64 years. Among children, the most common reason for visiting the emergency department are respiratory disorders, followed by injury and poisoning.