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Number of Hospitals in the US by State (2026)

Name: Number of Hospitals in the US by State (2026)
Creator: US Patient Guide

The United States has 6,119 hospitals in the Medicare (CMS) hospital files, and 4,652 of them (76.0%) list emergency services. Texas has the most hospitals (578) and District of Columbia the fewest of the 50 states and D.C. (13).

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), “Hospital General Information”; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), “Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility - General Information”; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), “Long-Term Care Hospital - General Information”. Data updated October 26, 2026.

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All states and territories

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Number of Hospitals in the US by State (2026). Click a column heading to sort (needs JavaScript); the table is already in order without it.
State	Hospitals	With emergency services	Share with emergency services	Acute care	Critical access	Psychiatric	Rehabilitation	Long-term acute care	Children's	Other
Alabama	111	89	80.2%	69	10	9	7	7	2	7
Alaska	26	24	92.3%	8	13	2	0	1	0	2
American Samoa	1	1	100.0%	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Arizona	130	85	65.4%	66	17	21	17	5	1	3
Arkansas	106	80	75.5%	39	31	10	11	6	2	7
California	409	322	78.7%	273	37	40	14	20	10	15
Colorado	110	90	81.8%	51	32	8	9	5	2	3
Connecticut	40	27	67.5%	26	0	8	2	2	1	1
Delaware	17	9	52.9%	6	0	5	3	1	1	1
District of Columbia	13	8	61.5%	6	0	2	1	2	1	1
Florida	287	191	66.6%	167	12	30	42	22	3	11
Georgia	171	131	76.6%	95	31	13	12	11	2	7
Guam	2	2	100.0%	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hawaii	24	21	87.5%	11	8	0	1	1	2	1
Idaho	52	41	78.8%	16	26	5	2	1	0	2
Illinois	204	176	86.3%	111	56	16	8	5	3	5
Indiana	164	115	70.1%	79	33	31	12	7	0	2
Iowa	123	115	93.5%	30	82	4	3	2	0	2
Kansas	149	123	82.6%	43	83	6	7	3	1	6
Kentucky	120	94	78.3%	59	29	10	7	10	0	5
Louisiana	204	100	49.0%	83	27	44	23	21	1	5
Maine	37	33	89.2%	13	18	4	1	0	0	1
Maryland	61	46	75.4%	43	0	8	3	2	2	3
Massachusetts	98	57	58.2%	52	4	19	6	10	3	4
Michigan	161	123	76.4%	88	36	19	2	11	1	4
Minnesota	138	122	88.4%	45	76	10	0	2	2	3
Mississippi	115	92	80.0%	57	30	9	2	7	0	10
Missouri	134	104	77.6%	61	35	13	8	7	4	6
Montana	65	62	95.4%	11	49	1	1	1	0	2
Nebraska	97	86	88.7%	25	61	2	1	3	2	3
Nevada	57	37	64.9%	22	13	8	5	6	0	3
New Hampshire	29	27	93.1%	13	13	1	2	0	0	0
New Jersey	93	61	65.6%	60	0	14	7	9	2	1
New Mexico	52	40	76.9%	26	13	4	5	2	0	2
New York	194	159	82.0%	126	21	29	1	1	1	15
North Carolina	131	106	80.9%	80	20	15	4	6	0	6
North Dakota	51	45	88.2%	7	36	2	2	2	0	2
Northern Mariana Islands	1	1	100.0%	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ohio	222	156	70.3%	116	33	29	16	14	8	6
Oklahoma	150	121	80.7%	73	39	12	8	8	2	8
Oregon	63	59	93.7%	32	25	2	0	1	1	2
Pennsylvania	216	149	69.0%	129	18	26	18	12	5	8
Puerto Rico	62	53	85.5%	52	0	4	4	0	1	1
Rhode Island	16	13	81.3%	10	0	2	2	1	0	1
South Carolina	85	56	65.9%	51	3	8	13	6	1	3
South Dakota	64	55	85.9%	17	39	1	1	2	1	3
Tennessee	143	100	69.9%	78	15	20	14	8	2	6
Texas	578	396	68.5%	282	94	61	76	37	16	12
U.S. Virgin Islands	2	2	100.0%	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Utah	56	48	85.7%	33	13	4	2	2	1	1
Vermont	17	16	94.1%	6	8	2	0	0	0	1
Virginia	112	89	79.5%	73	9	9	8	6	2	5
Washington	105	90	85.7%	46	38	9	3	1	3	5
West Virginia	64	49	76.6%	25	21	5	5	4	0	4
Wisconsin	155	126	81.3%	64	58	16	9	3	2	3
Wyoming	32	29	90.6%	9	19	1	1	0	0	2
United States	6,119	4,652	76.0%	3,069	1,384	633	411	306	94	222

Territories appear when the source lists at least one provider there. An empty cell means the source has no value to calculate it from, not zero.

How we calculated this

We count every open hospital in the CMS Hospital General Information file, plus the CMS lists of inpatient rehabilitation facilities and long-term care hospitals, and group them by the state in the hospital's address. Hospitals that CMS marks as closed are left out. "With emergency services" is the file's emergency services field answered Yes; the rehabilitation and long-term acute care lists have no such field, so those hospitals count as not listing emergency services. For 99 hospitals in the Greater Houston area, whose full profiles we keep separately, the type and star rating are CMS's and the emergency answer comes from the hospital's own website.

Data sources and dates

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS): “Hospital General Information”, updated October 26, 2026.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS): “Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility - General Information”, updated August 12, 2026.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS): “Long-Term Care Hospital - General Information”, updated August 12, 2026.

Limits of the data

A count of hospitals is not a measure of access to care: states differ in size and population, and one health system can have several hospital licenses. "Other" is Veterans Affairs, military, rural emergency and dedicated cancer hospitals.

Every figure is a count, sum or average of values in the official files above; none is estimated. Read the about page for how this site works and data freshness for when each source was last refreshed.

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US Patient Guide. “Number of Hospitals in the US by State (2026).” Computed from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), “Hospital General Information”; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), “Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility - General Information”; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), “Long-Term Care Hospital - General Information” (data updated October 26, 2026). https://uspatientguide.com/statistics/hospitals-by-state/

Common questions

How many hospitals are there in the United States?

6,119 in the Medicare (CMS) files used here, updated October 26, 2026.

Which state has the most hospitals?

Texas, with 578.

How many hospitals have an emergency room?

4,652 (76.0%) list emergency services.

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