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Fast Facts on U.S. Hospitals, 2025
There are 6,0934 hospitals in the United States. The American Hospital Association conducts an annual survey of hospitals in the United States. The data here, published in 2025, are a sample from the 2023 AHA Annual Survey (FY 2022) and offer quick answers on number of hospitals, government hospitals, hospitals in each state, hospital beds, icu beds, admissions, and expenses in the U.S.
AHA Data Visualizations
A collection of infographics from AHA Hospital Statistics on Fast Facts on U.S. Hospitals, Fast Facts on U.S. Health Systems, Fast Facts on U.S. Rural Hospitals, and Obstetrics: U.S. Rural Hospitals.
Driving the Drivers
Improving operational performance of hospitals, health care IT strategy, health care leadership, workflow optimization, social determinants of health.
Hospitals Are Economic Anchors in Their Communities 2017
In 2015, America’s hospitals treated 142 million people in their emergency departments, provided 581 million outpatient visits, performed almost 27 million surgeries and delivered nearly 4 million
Trendwatch Chartbook
TrendWatch Chartbook analyzes the latest in hospital and health system trends. It is produced by the AHA. Charts will be updated annually as new data become available. The last update was August 30, 2022.
Mobilizing Data to Improve Operational Efficiency
Improving operational performance of hospitals, health care IT strategy, health care leadership, reducing the cost of health care
Hospitals Are Economic Drivers in Their Communities 2018
In 2016, America’s hospitals treated 143 million people in their emergency departments, provided 605 million outpatient visits, performed over 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.
3 Data-Driven Keys to Address Health Equity
The Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas has been working with Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI), an independent collaborator, to use social needs data to identify women who are economically vulnerable and face challenges accessing care and may be at an elevated risk for breast cancer.
Preparing For Behavioral Health’s Future
Providers will have to access consumer behavioral health data and have the ability to apply advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to enable preventive interventions, predict early onset of behavioral disorders, recommend interventions to improve behavioral health outcomes and tailor solutions for complex behavioral health conditions.
Data Pools Get Deeper as AWS, Truveta Help Health Care Mine Insights
Buried deep within immense volumes of health care data are clinical insights waiting to be unearthed to improve treatments, cure diseases and better serve communities. Now the race is on to scale data from across many organizations to achieve this goal and to make it easier to search and analyze.