10 states with the most for-profit hospitals

More than 50 percent of the community hospitals in Texas, Nevada and Florida are for-profit, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

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The Kaiser Family Foundation draws its data from the 2018 AHA Annual Survey of Hospitals. The American Hospital Association defines community hospitals as “all nonfederal, short-term general, and special hospitals whose facilities and services are available to the public.”

Nearly a quarter of community hospitals in the U.S. were classified as for-profit in 2018, while more than 56 percent were nonprofit and nearly 19 percent were controlled by a state, county or city government.

Here are the states with the most for-profit community hospitals as of 2018, the latest year from which data is available:  

1. Texas — 53.2 percent 

2. Nevada — 52.3 percent 

3. Florida — 52.1 percent 

4. New Mexico — 43.9 percent

5. Arizona — 43.4 percent 

6. Louisiana — 41.8 percent

7. Tennessee — 39.1 percent

8. Oklahoma — 38.4 percent

9. South Carolina — 36.2 percent

10. Utah — 35.2 percent 

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