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According to the America Hospital Association (AHA), there are  4,897 Community Hospitals  out of a total of 5,708 registered hospitals in the U.S.

Details

• Number of U.S. Community Hospitals – 4,897
• Number of Federal Government Hospitals – 213
• Number of Nonfederal Psychiatric Hospitals – 444
• Number of Nonfederal Long Term Care Hospitals – 136
• Number of Hospital Units of Institutions
• (Prison Hospitals, College Infirmaries, Etc.) – 18

Beds

There are a total of 945,199 staffed beds in all U.S. registered hospitals.

Admissions

Over 37 million people (37,120,387) are admitted to all U.S. registered hospitals each year.

Some interesting hospital facts:

• Hospitals treat almost 118 million people in their emergency departments each year.
• Hospitals care for 481 million outpatients each year.
• Hospitals deliver over 4 million babies each year
• Hospitals employ more than 5 million people.
• There will be a projected shortage of one million registered nurses in the U.S. by the year 2020.

For information on U.S. hospitals by bed size