Here are the states with the most for-profit community hospitals as of 2015, the latest year from which data is available from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The American Hospital Association defines community hospitals as "all nonfederal, short-term general, and other special hospitals… including academic medical centers or other teaching hospitals if they are nonfederal short-term hospitals." More than a quarter of community hospitals in the following 17 states are for-profit.
1. Florida — 51.4 percent of hospitals are for-profit
2. Nevada — 50 percent
3. New Mexico — 44.4 percent
4. Tennessee — 43 percent
5. Texas — 39.9 percent
6. Alabama — 38.9 percent
7. Oklahoma — 33.6 percent
8. Arizona — 32.4 percent
8. South Carolina — 32.4 percent
10. Utah — 31. 9 percent
11. Mississippi — 28.4 percent
12. Louisiana — 27.5 percent
13. District of Columbia — 27.3 percent
14. Pennsylvania — 26.3 percent
15. West Virginia — 25.9 percent
16. Arkansas — 25 percent
16. Virginia — 25 percent
KFF used data from the American Hospital Association Annual Survey. Data are for community hospitals, which represent 85 percent of all hospitals. Federal hospitals, long-term care hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, institutions for the mentally impaired and addiction rehab facilities are not included.