The 50 largest public hospitals in America | 2021

Here are the 50 largest public hospitals in America, listed by number of beds. Figures are based on CMS cost report data analyzed by the American Hospital Directory. Data are for short-term acute-care hospitals, critical access hospitals and children's hospitals.

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.

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.

1. Jackson Memorial Hospital (Miami) — 1,762
2. Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital (Houston) — 1,408
3. Carolinas Medical Center (Charlotte, N.C.) — 1,269
4. University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital — 1,227
5. Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (Columbus) — 1,130
6. Nassau University Medical Center (East Meadow, N.Y.) — 1,119
7. Bergen New Bridge Medical Center (Paramus, N.J.) — 1,020
8. Memorial Regional Hospital (Hollywood, Fla.) — 1,013
9. University of Michigan Medical Center (Ann Arbor) — 1,007
10. Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta) — 989
11. Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (San Jose, Calif.) — 972
12. University of North Carolina Medical Center (Chapel Hill) — 940
13. Huntsville (Ala.) Hospital — 922
14. Bellevue Hospital Center (New York City, NY) — 912
15. Erie County Medical Center (Buffalo, N.Y.) — 909
16. Westchester Medical Center (Valhalla, N.Y.) — 885
17. Prisma Health Greenville (S.C.) Memorial Hospital — 851
18. The University of Kansas Hospital (Kansas City) — 847
19. Parkland Hospital (Dallas) — 836
20. Lee Memorial Hospital (Fort Myers, Fla.) — 832
21. Sarasota (Fla.) Memorial Hospital-Sarasota Campus — 814
22. New Hanover Regional Medical Center (Wilmington, N.C.) — 800
23. University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics (Iowa City) — 790
24. Stony Brook (N.Y.) University Hospital — 788
25. University of California San Francisco Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights — 785
26. Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center (San Francisco) — 780
27. Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center (Richmond) — 764
28. Upstate University Hospital (Syracuse, N.Y.) — 734
29. University of Mississippi Medical Center (Jackson) — 717
30. University of California San Diego Medical Center — 717
31. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston) — 710
32. Erlanger Baroness Hospital (Chattanooga, Tenn.) — 680
33. Los Angeles County and University of Southern California Medical Center — 670
34. WellStar Kennestone Hospital (Marietta, Ga.) — 662
35. Atrium Health Navicent The Medical Center (Macon, Ga.) — 654
36. Ben Taub Hospital (Houston) — 653
37. Cape Fear Valley Medical Center (Fayetteville, N.C.) — 647
38. Jackson-Madison County General Hospital (Jackson, Tenn.) — 642
39. NYC Health + Hospitals Kings County (New York City) — 634
40. Broward Health Medical Center (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) — 632
41. MetroHealth Medical Center (Cleveland) — 620
42. University of California Davis Medical Center (Sacramento) — 617
43. DCH Regional Medical Center (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) — 606
44. Halifax Health Medical Center of Daytona Beach (Fla.) — 595
45. Kaweah Delta Medical Center (Visalia, Calif.) — 581
46. University of New Mexico Hospital (Albuquerque) — 555
47. Northside Hospital Gwinnett (Lawrenceville, Ga.) — 538
48. John Peter Smith Hospital (Fort Worth, Texas) — 532
49. NYC Health + Hospitals Elmhurst (New York City) — 525
50. University Medical Center of Southern Nevada (Las Vegas) — 498