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 hospitals in the United States was forecast to continuously decrease between 2024 and 2029 by in total 13 hospitals (-0.23 percent). According to this forecast, in 2029, the number of hospitals will have decreased for the twelfth consecutive year to 5,548 hospitals. Depicted is the number of hospitals in the country or region at hand. As the OECD states, the rules according to which an institution can be registered as a hospital vary across countries.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 hospitals in countries like Canada and Mexico.

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.

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.

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This statistic presents the number of hospitals in the U.S. as of May 2023, by state. The most recent total number of hospitals in Alaska was 11, while there were 336 hospitals in California. These numbers include non-federal, short-term, and acute care hospitals.

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Note: After May 3, 2024, this dataset will no longer be updated because hospitals are no longer required to report data on COVID-19 hospital admissions, and hospital capacity and occupancy data, to HHS through CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network. The related CDC COVID Data Tracker site was revised or retired on May 10, 2023.

This dataset represents daily COVID-19 hospitalization data and metrics aggregated to national, state/territory, and regional levels. COVID-19 hospitalization data are reported to CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network, which monitors national and local trends in healthcare system stress, capacity, and community disease levels for approximately 6,000 hospitals in the United States. Data reported by hospitals to NHSN and included in this dataset represent aggregated counts and include metrics capturing information specific to COVID-19 hospital admissions, and inpatient and ICU bed capacity occupancy.

Reporting information:

• As of December 15, 2022, COVID-19 hospital data are required to be reported to NHSN, which monitors national and local trends in healthcare system stress, capacity, and community disease levels for approximately 6,000 hospitals in the United States. Data reported by hospitals to NHSN represent aggregated counts and include metrics capturing information specific to hospital capacity, occupancy, hospitalizations, and admissions. Prior to December 15, 2022, hospitals reported data directly to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) or via a state submission for collection in the HHS Unified Hospital Data Surveillance System (UHDSS).
• While CDC reviews these data for errors and corrects those found, some reporting errors might still exist within the data. To minimize errors and inconsistencies in data reported, CDC removes outliers before calculating the metrics. CDC and partners work with reporters to correct these errors and update the data in subsequent weeks.
• Many hospital subtypes, including acute care and critical access hospitals, as well as Veterans Administration, Defense Health Agency, and Indian Health Service hospitals, are included in the metric calculations provided in this report. Psychiatric, rehabilitation, and religious non-medical hospital types are excluded from calculations.
• Data are aggregated and displayed for hospitals with the same Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Certification Number (CCN), which are assigned by CMS to counties based on the CMS Provider of Services files.
• Full details on COVID-19 hospital data reporting guidance can be found here: https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/covid-19-faqs-hospitals-hospital-laboratory-acute-care-facility-data-reporting.pdf

Metric details:

• Time Period: timeseries data will update weekly on Mondays as soon as they are reviewed and verified, usually before 8 pm ET. Updates will occur the following day when reporting coincides with a federal holiday. Note: Weekly updates might be delayed due to delays in reporting. All data are provisional. Because these provisional counts are subject to change, including updates to data reported previously, adjustments can occur. Data may be updated since original publication due to delays in reporting (to account for data received after a given Thursday publication) or data quality corrections.
• New COVID-19 Hospital Admissions (count): Number of new admissions of patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 in the previous week (including both adult and pediatric admissions) in the entire jurisdiction.
• New COVID-19 Hospital Admissions (7-Day Average): 7-day average of new admissions of patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 in the previous week (including both adult and pediatric admissions) in the entire jurisdiction.
• Cumulative COVID-19 Hospital Admissions: Cumulative total number of admissions of patients with laborat

After May 3, 2024, this dataset and webpage will no longer be updated because hospitals are no longer required to report data on COVID-19 hospital admissions, and hospital capacity and occupancy data, to HHS through CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network. Data voluntarily reported to NHSN after May 1, 2024, will be available starting May 10, 2024, at COVID Data Tracker Hospitalizations.

The following dataset provides facility-level data for hospital utilization aggregated on a weekly basis (Sunday to Saturday). These are derived from reports with facility-level granularity across two main sources: (1) HHS TeleTracking, and (2) reporting provided directly to HHS Protect by state/territorial health departments on behalf of their healthcare facilities.

The hospital population includes all hospitals registered with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as of June 1, 2020. It includes non-CMS hospitals that have reported since July 15, 2020. It does not include psychiatric, rehabilitation, Indian Health Service (IHS) facilities, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities, Defense Health Agency (DHA) facilities, and religious non-medical facilities.

For a given entry, the term “collection_week” signifies the start of the period that is aggregated. For example, a “collection_week” of 2020-11-15 means the average/sum/coverage of the elements captured from that given facility starting and including Sunday, November 15, 2020, and ending and including reports for Saturday, November 21, 2020.

Reported elements include an append of either “_coverage”, “_sum”, or “_avg”.

• A “_coverage” append denotes how many times the facility reported that element during that collection week.
• A “_sum” append denotes the sum of the reports provided for that facility for that element during that collection week.
• A “_avg” append is the average of the reports provided for that facility for that element during that collection week.

The file will be updated weekly. No statistical analysis is applied to impute non-response. For averages, calculations are based on the number of values collected for a given hospital in that collection week. Suppression is applied to the file for sums and averages less than four (4). In these cases, the field will be replaced with “-999,999”.

A story page was created to display both corrected and raw datasets and can be accessed at this link: https://healthdata.gov/stories/s/nhgk-5gpv

This data is preliminary and subject to change as more data become available. Data is available starting on July 31, 2020.

Sometimes, reports for a given facility will be provided to both HHS TeleTracking and HHS Protect. When this occurs, to ensure that there are not duplicate reports, deduplication is applied according to prioritization rules within HHS Protect.

For influenza fields listed in the file, the current HHS guidance marks these fields as optional. As a result, coverage of these elements are varied.

For recent updates to the dataset, scroll to the bottom of the dataset description.

On May 3, 2021, the following fields have been added to this data set.

• hhs_ids
• previous_day_admission_adult_covid_confirmed_7_day_coverage
• previous_day_admission_pediatric_covid_confirmed_7_day_coverage
• previous_day_admission_adult_covid_suspected_7_day_coverage
• previous_day_admission_pediatric_covid_suspected_7_day_coverage
• previous_week_personnel_covid_vaccinated_doses_administered_7_day_sum
• total_personnel_covid_vaccinated_doses_none_7_day_sum
• total_personnel_covid_vaccinated_doses_one_7_day_sum
• total_personnel_covid_vaccinated_doses_all_7_day_sum
• previous_week_patients_covid_vaccinated_doses_one_7_day_sum
• previous_week_patients_covid_vaccinated_doses_all_7_day_sum

On May 8, 2021, this data set has been converted to a corrected data set. The corrections applied to this data set are to smooth out data anomalies caused by keyed in data errors. To help determine which records have had corrections made to it. An additional Boolean field called is_corrected has been added.

On May 13, 2021 Changed vaccination fields from sum to max or min fields. This reflects the maximum or minimum number reported for that metric in a given week.

On June 7, 2021 Changed vaccination fields from max or min fields to Wednesday reported only. This reflects that the number reported for that metric is only reported on Wednesdays in a given week.

On September 20, 2021, the following has been updated: The use of analytic dataset as a source.

On January 19, 2022, the following fields have been added to this dataset:

• inpatient_beds_used_covid_7_day_avg
• inpatient_beds_used_covid_7_day_sum
• inpatient_beds_used_covid_7_day_coverage

On April 28, 2022, the following pediatric fields have been added to this dataset:

• all_pediatric_inpatient_bed_occupied_7_day_avg
• all_pediatric_inpatient_bed_occupied_7_day_coverage
• all_pediatric_inpatient_bed_occupied_7_day_sum
• all_pediatric_inpatient_beds_7_day_avg
• all_pediatric_inpatient_beds_7_day_coverage
• all_pediatric_inpatient_beds_7_day_sum
• previous_day_admission_pediatric_covid_confirmed_0_4_7_day_sum
• previous_day_admission_pediatric_covid_confirmed_12_17_7_day_sum
• previous_day_admission_pediatric_covid_confirmed_5_11_7_day_sum
• previous_day_admission_pediatric_covid_confirmed_unknown_7_day_sum
• staffed_icu_pediatric_patients_confirmed_covid_7_day_avg
• staffed_icu_pediatric_patients_confirmed_covid_7_day_coverage
• staffed_icu_pediatric_patients_confirmed_covid_7_day_sum
• staffed_pediatric_icu_bed_occupancy_7_day_avg
• staffed_pediatric_icu_bed_occupancy_7_day_coverage
• staffed_pediatric_icu_bed_occupancy_7_day_sum
• total_staffed_pediatric_icu_beds_7_day_avg
• total_staffed_pediatric_icu_beds_7_day_coverage
• total_staffed_pediatric_icu_beds_7_day_sum

On October 24, 2022, the data includes more analytical calculations in efforts to provide a cleaner dataset. For a raw version of this dataset, please follow this link: https://healthdata.gov/Hospital/COVID-19-Reported-Patient-Impact-and-Hospital-Capa/uqq2-txqb

Due to changes in reporting requirements, after June 19, 2023, a collection week is defined as starting on a Sunday and ending on the next Saturday.

This feature class/shapefile contains locations of Hospitals for 50 US states, Washington D.C., US territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, and Virgin Islands. The dataset only includes hospital facilities based on data acquired from various state departments or federal sources which has been referenced in the SOURCE field. Hospital facilities which do not occur in these sources will be not present in the database. The source data was available in a variety of formats (pdfs, tables, webpages, etc.) which was cleaned and geocoded and then converted into a spatial database. The database does not contain nursing homes or health centers. Hospitals have been categorized into children, chronic disease, critical access, general acute care, long term care, military, psychiatric, rehabilitation, special, and women based on the range of the available values from the various sources after removing similarities.

In 2022, there were 207 federal hospitals and 5,923 nonfederal hospitals in the United States. This statistic shows the number of federal and nonfederal hospitals in the United States from 1975 to 2022.

This table shows the low, high, and average percents of discharges related to a referenced DRG (diagnosis-related group) as a share of the total discharges from the top 100 common DRGs for hospitals in the United States. The source of data for this table is FY2011 hospital charges file provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

The industry has encountered challenging conditions, with revenue falling at a CAGR of 1.2% to $28.5 billion over the past five years, despite a bump of 4.9% in 2023 alone. Hospitals have met a high degree of fiscal uncertainty via to the whittling down of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) from the prior administration, while a renewed focus on it by the Biden administration has already boosted the number of health-insured consumers, bolstering demand for hospital construction. From legislative hurdles to the global pandemic outbreak causing construction stoppages amid a surge in demand for hospital capacity, the industry has endured significant volatility.The industry includes private and public hospital construction, though private hospital construction makes up nearly 80.0% of the total. Growth in the value of both private and public hospital construction has been insufficient to keep up with inflation. This inconsistency in private and public markets helps to explain the halt in industry revenue growth, while at a broader level, hospitals have opted to shift acute care services to off-campus locations to reduce costs and reach a larger patient pool. The move has helped hospitals mitigate lower admission and inpatient days, but these facilities are smaller and generate less revenue for enterprises. As demand for hospital space in 2020 skyrocketed amid the pandemic, the industry couldn't respond rapidly due to local and state work stoppages.Going forward, revenue growth for the industry will resume as total health expenditure remains strong and the value of private nonresidential construction fully recovers and accelerates ahead of declines exhibited during the pandemic. As the population ages, a rising senior demographic will embolden demand for hospital services. In the post-pandemic world, government support for hospital capacity will also rise, benefiting industry performance. Overall, industry revenue is slated to grow at a CAGR of 3.0% to an estimated $33.0 billion in 2028 as profit recovers to 3.3%.

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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.

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This dataset provides information on 1,429 in United States as of March, 2025. It includes details such as email addresses (where publicly available), phone numbers (where publicly available), and geocoded addresses. Explore market trends, identify potential business partners, and gain valuable insights into the industry. Download a complimentary sample of 10 records to see what's included.

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Data on community hospital beds in the United States, by state. Data are from Health, United States. SOURCE: American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey of Hospitals, Hospital Statistics. Search, visualize, and download these and other estimates from over 120 health topics with the NCHS Data Query System (DQS), available from: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/dataquery/index.htm.