Number of EDs in 2013: 332
Decade change in number of EDs: 2 percent down (from 2004)
EDs per capita: 6.7 per 1 million residents
Patient volume in 2013: 12.45 million
Decade change in patient volume: 37 percent increase (from 2004)
Patients treated and released: 86 percent
Patients admitted as inpatients: 14 percent (55 percent of all admissions)
Patient payment methods:
- Private: 30 percent
- Medi-Cal: 30 percent
- Medicare: 17 percent
- Uninsured: 15 percent
- Other: 7 percent
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