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

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