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.

Emergency room visit rates across the United States show significant variation, with a national average of 411 visits per 1,000 population in 2022. This average masks considerable differences between states, ranging from 588 visits per 1,000 population in North Dakota to just 251 in Nevada. Wait times in emergency rooms While ER visit rates provide insight into utilization, wait times offer a glimpse into the efficiency of emergency care delivery. In 2022, ER patients waited an average of 38.1 minutes to see a healthcare provider in emergency departments nationwide. Interestingly, the COVID-19 pandemic temporarily reduced wait times in 2020, but they rebounded to pre-pandemic levels by 2021. Most patients, roughly 70 percent, spend less than an hour in the emergency department before being seen by a medical professional. These figures suggest that despite high utilization in some areas, many emergency departments manage to process patients relatively quickly. Demographic disparities in emergency care Emergency department usage varies significantly across different demographic groups, revealing important healthcare access disparities. Infants under one-year-old and adults 75 years and over have the highest ED visit rates among all age groups. Additionally, racial disparities in ED rates are evident, with non-Hispanic Black individuals having double the ED visit rate of non-Hispanic White individuals in 2022. These patterns underscore the need for targeted healthcare interventions and improved access to curative care for vulnerable populations.

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.

This statistic shows the leading challenges to emergency departments in the U.S. as reported by hospital and health system representatives during a survey in February 2016. It was found that approximately 35 percent of respondents report accommodating mental health patients as the biggest challenge for their emergency department.

The Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS) was created to enable analyses of emergency department (ED) utilization patterns and support public health professionals, administrators, policymakers, and clinicians in their decision-making regarding this critical source of care. The NEDS can be weighted to produce national estimates. The NEDS is the largest all-payer ED database in the United States. It was constructed using records from both the HCUP State Emergency Department Databases (SEDD) and the State Inpatient Databases (SID), both also described in healthdata.gov. The SEDD capture information on ED visits that do not result in an admission (i.e., treat-and-release visits and transfers to another hospital). The SID contain information on patients initially seen in the emergency room and then admitted to the same hospital. The NEDS contains 25-30 million (unweighted) records for ED visits for over 950 hospitals and approximates a 20-percent stratified sample of U.S. hospital-based EDs. The NEDS contains information about geographic characteristics, hospital characteristics, patient characteristics, and the nature of visits (e.g., common reasons for ED visits, including injuries). The NEDS contains clinical and resource use information included in a typical discharge abstract, with safeguards to protect the privacy of individual patients, physicians, and hospitals (as required by data sources). It includes ED charge information for over 75% of patients, regardless of payer, including patients covered by Medicaid, private insurance, and the uninsured. The NEDS excludes data elements that could directly or indirectly identify individuals, hospitals, or states.

In 2022, the most common emergency room (ER) diagnosis was essential (primary) hypertension, which accounted for 3 percent of all ER diagnoses in the U.S. Contact with and (suspected) exposure to COVID-19 was the second most common diagnosis given out in ERs.

The Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS) is part of a family of databases and software tools developed for the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). NEDS is the largest all-payer emergency department (ED) database in the United States, yielding national estimates of hospital-based ED visits. One of the most distinctive features of the NEDS is its large sample size, which allows for analysis across hospital types and the study of relatively uncommon disorders and procedures.

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.

The largest all-payer ambulatory surgery database in the United States, the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Nationwide Ambulatory Surgery Sample (NASS) produces national estimates of major ambulatory surgery encounters in hospital-owned facilities. Major ambulatory surgeries are defined as selected major therapeutic procedures that require the use of an operating room, penetrate or break the skin, and involve regional anesthesia, general anesthesia, or sedation to control pain (i.e., surgeries flagged as "narrow" in the HCUP Surgery Flag Software). Unweighted, the NASS contains approximately 9.0 million ambulatory surgery encounters each year and approximately 11.8 million ambulatory surgery procedures. Weighted, it estimates approximately 11.9 million ambulatory surgery encounters and 15.7 million ambulatory surgery procedures. Sampled from the HCUP State Ambulatory Surgery and Services Databases (SASD) and State Emergency Department Databases (SEDD) in order to capture both planned and emergent major ambulatory surgeries, the NASS can be used to examine selected ambulatory surgery utilization patterns. Developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HCUP data inform decision making at the national, State, and community levels. The NASS contains clinical and resource-use information that is included in a typical hospital-owned facility record, including patient characteristics, clinical diagnostic and surgical procedure codes, disposition of patients, total charges, facility characteristics, and expected source of payment, regardless of payer, including patients covered by Medicaid, private insurance, and the uninsured. The NASS excludes data elements that could directly or indirectly identify individuals, hospitals, or states. The NASS is limited to encounters with at least one in-scope major ambulatory surgery on the record, performed at hospital-owned facilities. Procedures intended primarily for diagnostic purposes are not considered in-scope. Restricted access data files are available with a data use agreement and brief online security training.

In 2018, Oregon State Hospital reported net patient revenue of around 179 million U.S. dollars, this was the highest amount among the largest behavioral health hospitals in the United States. This statistic shows the largest behavioral health hospitals the U.S. in 2018, by net patient revenue.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

As of November 2024, five out of the 18 largest health systems in the U.S., had no hospitals that were compliant with the federal hospital transparency rule. Even HCA healthcare only had 56 percent compliance with the rule, and if the availability of actual dollars-and-cents prices were assessed, none of its hospitals passed the pricing data sufficiency**. This means that these hospitals only reported prices in algorithms or percentages, which is not consumer-friendly, rendering it useless for the average consumer to compare prices.

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.

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.

As of October 2024, 14 hospitals in the United States have received a total of four million civil monetary penalties for noncompliance with the hospital price transparency rule, since it came into effect in January 2021. Northside Hospital Atlanta in Georgia received the largest fine of 883,180 U.S. dollars. In fact, the most recent hospital price transparency report found that only one in five U.S. hospitals were compliant with the rule as of November 2024.