Here are the 50 hospitals in America with the most employees. Figures are based on the "total employee" figure hospitals provided in their most recent CMS cost report, and the data has been analyzed by the American Hospital Directory.
The "total employee" figure can be found on Worksheet S-3, Part 1, Line 14. It reflects full-time employees with the hospital.
Editor's note: Some hospitals file a combined or consolidated CMS cost report that includes information for other facilities on their campus or affiliated hospitals. In those cases, facilities are included in the "total employee" figure are specified in italicized notes.
1. Cleveland Clinic — 20,520
2. New York-Presbyterian Hospital (New York City) — 19,420
This facility currently reports in a consolidated fashion with New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
3. University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (Houston) — 18,482
4. Montefiore Medical Center – Moses Division Hospital (Bronx, N.Y.) — 15,036
Data for this facility includes information for The Children's Hospital at Montefiore, the Montefiore Medical Center – Weiler Division Hospital and Montefiore Medical Center - North Division Hospital.
5. University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers (Ann Arbor) — 14,447
6. Florida Hospital Orlando — 14,320
Data for this facility includes information for Florida Hospital Altamonte, Florida Hospital Apopka, Florida Hospital Celebration Health, Florida Hospital East Orlando, Florida Hospital Kissimmee and Winter Park Memorial Hospital.
7. Aurora Sinai Medical Center/Aurora Saint Luke's Medical Center (Milwaukee) — 12,747
This facility operates in a consolidated fashion with Aurora Saint Luke's Medical Center.
8. Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, Tenn.) — 12,694
Data for this facility includes information for both the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt and the Psychiatric Hospital at Vanderbilt.
9. Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston) — 11,408
10. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center — 10,974
Data for this facility includes information for Convalescent Hospital for Children.
11. Orlando (Fla.) Regional Medical Center — 10,862
Data for this facility includes information for the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, the Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, Lucerne Hospital, South Seminole Hospital and Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies.
12. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles) — 10,397
13. Henry Ford Hospital (Detroit) — 10,173
14. Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston) — 9,833
15. Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital (Indianapolis) — 9,666
Data for this facility includes information for IU Health Indiana University Hospital and Riley Hospital for Children.
16. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York City) — 9,488
17. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian (Pittsburgh) — 8,887
Data for this facility includes information for University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Shadyside and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Montefiore.
18. Christiana Hospital (Newark, Del.) — 8, 835
Data for this facility includes information for Wilmington Hospital.
19. Jackson Memorial Hospital (Miami) — 8,632
Data reported for this facility includes information for the Jackson Rehabilitation Hospital, Jackson South Community Hospital, Jackson North Medical Center and Holtz Children's Hospital.
20. The Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore) — 8,560
21. The Mount Sinai Medical Center (New York City) — 8,554
Data for this facility includes information for The Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens.
22. Parkland Hospital (Dallas) — 8,500
23. Barnes-Jewish Hospital (St. Louis) — 8,299
24. Carolinas Medical Center (Charlotte, N.C.). — 8,141
25. North Shore University Hospital (Manhasset, N.Y.) — 8,096
Data for this facility includes information for Syosset Hospital.
26. Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak (Mich.) — 7,812
27. Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital (Grand Rapids, Mich.) — 7,768
Data for this facility includes information for Blodgett Hospital and the Helen DeVos Children's Hospital.
28. Buffalo (N.Y.) General Hospital — 7,647
Data for this facility includes information for DeGraff Memorial Hospital, Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital, and the Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo.
29. New York University Langone Medical Center (New York City) — 7,567
Data reported includes information for The Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine.
30. Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center (Winston-Salem, N.C.) — 7,518
This facility contains information for Brenner Children's Hospital.
31. Yale-New Haven (Conn.) Hospital — 7,442
Data for this facility includes information for Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital.
32. Beth Israel Medical Center (New York City) — 7,429
Data for this facility includes information for Beth Israel Medical Center – Kings Highway Division.
33. Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (Columbus, Ohio) — 7,391
Data for this facility includes information for Ohio State's Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital, Ohio State University Harding Hospital and Ohio State University Hospital East.
34. University of Maryland Medical Center (Baltimore) — 7,346
35. Rush University Medical Center (Chicago) — 7,330
36. Long Island Jewish Medical Center (New Hyde Park, N.Y.) — 7,298
Data for this facility includes information for The Zucker Hillside Hospital and Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York.
37. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston) — 7,229
38. University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics (Iowa City) — 7,226
39. University of North Carolina Hospitals (Chapel Hill) — 7,222
North Carolina Memorial, Children's and Women's Hospitals operate on this campus.
40. Duke University Hospital (Durham, N.C.) — 7,218
This campus contains Duke Children's Hospital and Health Center.
41. Strong Memorial Hospital (Rochester, N.Y.) — 7,184
42. Methodist University Hospital (Memphis, Tenn.) — 7,115
Data for this facility includes information for Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center, Methodist le Bonheur Germantown Hospital, Methodist North Hospital, and Methodist South Hospital.
43. UAB Hospital (Birmingham, Ala.) — 7,053
44. University of California Davis Medical Center — 6,998
45. Ben Taub General Hospital (Houston) — 6,994
Data for this facility includes information for two other Harris County Hospital District entities: the Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital and the Quentin Mease Community Hospital.
46. University Hospitals Case Medical Center (Cleveland) — 6,915
Data for this facility includes information for MacDonald Women's Hospital.
47. Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (Philadelphia) — 6,901
Data for this facility includes information for Methodist Hospital.
48. University of California San Francisco Medical Center — 6,804
Data for this facility includes information for the University of California Medical Center at Mount Zion and the University of California Medical Center at Parnassus.
49. Los Angeles County and University of Southern California Medical Center (Los Angeles) — 6,751
50. Texas Children's Hospital (Houston) — 6,679
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