Here are the 50 largest public hospitals in America, listed by number of beds. Figures are based on CMS cost report data analyzed by American Hospital Directory. Data are for short term acute-care hospitals, critical access hospitals and children's hospitals.
Note: The hospital bed counts reported here include all medical/surgical and special care beds as reported to CMS by the hospitals in their most recent cost reports and, in some cases, may include bed counts from other facilities that share a provider number with the main hospital.
For the purposes of this list, AHD data were stratified to include the following "type of control" categories: governmental hospital district; governmental city; governmental city-county; governmental county; governmental federal; governmental other; and governmental state.
1. Jackson Memorial Hospital (Miami) — 1,724
2. Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital (Houston) — 1,157
3. UAB Hospital (Birmingham, Ala.) — 1,138
4. Memorial Regional Hospital (Hollywood, Fla.) — 1,017
5. Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (Columbus) — 976
6. Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta) — 931
7. Bellevue Hospital Center (New York City) — 912
8. Erie County Medical Center (Buffalo, N.Y.) — 910
9. University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers (Ann Arbor) — 893
10. Carolinas Medical Center (Charlotte, N.C.) — 872
11. Lee Memorial Hospital (Fort Myers, Fla.) — 853
12. Greenville (S.C.) Memorial Hospital — 842
13. Huntsville (Ala.) Hospital — 838
14. Ben Taub General Hospital (Houston) — 796
15. University of North Carolina Hospitals (Chapel Hill) — 788
16. Parkland Hospital (Dallas) — 778
17. MetroHealth Medical Center (Cleveland) — 737
18. VCU Medical Center (Richmond, Va.) — 730
19. Upstate University Hospital (Syracuse, N.Y.) — 715
20. New Hanover Regional Medical Center (Wilmington, N.C.) — 714
21. University Hospital of Brooklyn (N.Y.) — 709
22. University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics (Iowa City) — 699
23. Los Angeles County and University of Southern California Medical Center (Los Angeles) — 674
24. Broward General Medical Center (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) — 656
25. University of California San Francisco Medical Center at Parnassus — 650
26. Westchester Medical Center (Valhalla, N.Y.) — 643
27. Kings County Hospital Center (Brooklyn, N.Y.) — 634
28. Jackson-Madison County General Hospital (Jackson, Tenn.) — 633
29. The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (Houston) — 631
30. University of Mississippi Medical Center (Jackson) — 618
31. DCH Regional Medical Center (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) — 615
32. Sarasota (Fla.) Memorial Hospital — 597
33. The University of Kansas Hospital (Kansas City) — 590
34. University of California, San Diego Medical Center – Hillcrest (San Diego) — 589
35. Medical Center of Central Georgia (Macon, Ga.) — 586
36. Cape Fear Valley Medical Center (Fayetteville, N.C.) — 584
37. Medical Center of Daytona Beach (Fla.) — 582
38. Kaweah Delta Hospital (Visalia, Calif.) — 581
39. University of California Davis Medical Center (Sacramento) — 581
40. Stony Brook (N.Y.) University Medical Center — 578
41. WellStar Kennestone Hospital (Marietta, Ga.) — 572
42. University of New Mexico Hospital (Albuquerque, N.M.) — 557
43. Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (San Jose, Calif.) — 554
44. Elmhurst (N.Y.) Hospital Center — 545
45. Memorial Hospital Central (Colorado Springs) — 543
46. Erlanger Baroness (Chattanooga, Tenn.) — 540
47. John Peter Smith Hospital (Fort Worth, Texas) — 537*
48. Sharp Grossmont Hospital (La Mesa, Calif.) — 537
49. Nassau University Medical Center (East Meadow, N.Y.) — 530
50. Gwinnett Medical Center – Lawrenceville (Ga.) — 526
*The bed count for John Peter Smith Hospital, per AHD data, was previously recorded as 527. A hospital representative confirmed that number was actually 537.
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