How many hospitals are there in the US?

According to AHA Hospital Statistics 2006 edition, there are 5,759
registered hospitals in the United States.

Total Number of All U.S. Registered* Hospitals    5,759

A further breakdown of these hospitals into different categories is
available at the link below.

Fast Facts on U.S. Hospitals from AHA Hospital Statistics

The American Hospital Association conducts an annual survey of
hospitals in the United States. The data above, from the 2004 annual
surveyis taken from the AHA Hospital Statistics, 2006 edition
http://www.hospitalconnect.com/aha/resource_center/fastfacts/fast_facts_US_hospitals.html



According to the "IHF Database of Hospitals", there are 6731 hospitals
in the United States.
http://www.hospitalmanagement.net/ihf/publication_5_1.html


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I hope this helps!

Best regards, 
Bobbie7

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Clarification of Answer by bobbie7-ga on 01 Apr 2006 14:04 PST

?There are 5794 hospitals in the United States; of these 4927 are
community hospitals defined as nonfederal, short term general and
special hospitals including academic medical centers, with 2178 being
rural community hospitals and 2749 urban community hospitals.
For-profit hospitals total 766, and not-for-profit hospitals total
3025 and local governments own another 1136 community hospitals. A
further breakdown indicates that there are 240 Federal government
hospitals and that the number of nonfederal psychiatric hospitals is
477, while long term care hospitals number 128 and that the number of
institutional hospitals (prison hospitals, college infirmaries, etc.)
is 22.?

The Rubins
http://www.therubins.com/homes/hospitiind.htm