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Fast Facts on U.S. Hospitals, 2025

There are 6,093 hospitals in the United States. The American Hospital Association conducts an annual survey of hospitals in the United States and provides statistics based on this survey.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

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.
Statistics

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
Infographics

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.
Trailblazers

Driving the Drivers

Improving operational performance of hospitals, health care IT strategy, health care leadership, workflow optimization, social determinants of health.
Guides and Reports

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.
Statistics

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.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

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.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

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.